Stop Press Girl

Stop Press Girl

78 mins | Comedy | June 2, 1949

A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange ability; if she's in the vicinity of a machine for more than fifteen minutes, it stops working.

Stop Press Girl

78 mins | Comedy | June 2, 1949

Stop Press Girl
A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange ability; if she's in the vicinity of a machine for more than fifteen minutes, it stops working.
IMDb rating 6.1
Producers Aquila Pictures
Original title Stop Press Girl
Directors Adele Reynolds, Michael Barry, Dicky Leeman
Writers T. J. Morrison, Basil Thomas

Cast

Sally Ann Howes

as Jennifer Peters

Gordon Jackson

as Jock Melville

Basil Radford

as The Mechanical Type

Naunton Wayne

as The Mechanical Type

James Robertson Justice

as Arthur Peters

Sonia Holm

as Angela Carew

Nigel Buchanan

as Roy Fairfax

Joyce Barbour

as Aunt Mab

Campbell Cotts

as John Fairfax

Cyril Chamberlain

as Johnnie

Julia Lang

as Carole Saunders

Percy Walsh

as Editor, Evening Comet

Oliver Burt

as Editor, Morning Sun

Kenneth More

as Police Sgt. 'Bonzo'

Humphrey Lestocq

as Radio Commentator

Vincent Ball

as Hero in cinema sequence

Anne Valery

as Heroine in cinema sequence

Michael Goodliffe

as McPherson

Michael Balfour

as Crook (uncredited)

John Boxer

as Pub Landlord (uncredited)

Fred Griffiths

as Truck Driver (uncredited)

Sam Kydd

as Railway Ticket Clerk (uncredited)

Arthur Lowe

as Archibald (uncredited)

Jack May

as Newspaper Seller (uncredited)

William Mervyn

as Cinema Manager (uncredited)

Douglas Seale

as Jeweller's Assistant (uncredited)

André van Gyseghem

as Ex-Editor of Evening Comet (uncredited)

Jack Vyvyan

as Hotel Porter (uncredited)

Patrick Waddington

as Airline Director (uncredited)

Michael Ward

as Hairdressers' Manager (uncredited)