Press for Time
Press for Time is a 1966 British comedy film directed by Robert Asher and starring Norman Wisdom. The screenplay was written by Eddie Leslie and Wisdom, based on the 1963 novel Yea Yea Yea, by Angus McGill. It was partly filmed in Teignmouth in Devon. It was the last film Wisdom made for the Rank Organisation.
Plot
Norman Shields is a newspaper seller in London, a job organised for him by his grandfather, the Prime Minister. After causing chaos. he is found a new job as reporter on a newspaper in the fictional seaside town of Tinmouth (partly filmed in the real seaside town of Teignmouth). The newspaper owner, an MP, has ambitions to become a junior minister and so goes along with the Prime Minister's 'request'.
Cast
More details
author | Eddie Leslie |
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contentLocation | Devon London |
director | Robert Asher |
editor | Gerry Hambling |
genre | comedy |
keywords | beauty contest meet new job newspaper newspaper seller prime minister report seaside town teignmouth |
musicBy | Mike Vickers |
producer | Peter Newbrook Robert Hartford-Davis |
publisher | Rank Film Distributors |