- Press for Time
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name = Press for Time
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director = Robert Asher
producer =Robert Hartford-Davis Peter Newbrook
writer =Eddie Leslie Norman Wisdom Angus McGill (book)
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starring = Norman Wisdom
music =Michael Vickers
cinematography =Peter Newbrook
editing =Gerry Hambling
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released =8 December 1966
runtime = 102 minutes
country = UK
language = English
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imdb_id = 0060857"Press for time" is a 1966 film starring
Norman Wisdom . The screenplay was written byEddie Leslie and Norman Wisdom, based on the 1963 novel "Yea Yea Yea", byAngus McGill . It was partly filmed inTeignmouth inDevon .Cast
*Norman Wisdom - Norman Shields/ Emily, his mother/ Wilfred, his grandfather (the P.M.)
*Derek Bond - Major R.E. Bartlett
*Derek Francis - Alderman Corcoran
*Angela Browne - Elanor Lampton
*Tracey Crisp - Ruby Fairchild
*Allan Cuthbertson - Mr. Ballard (Attorney General)
*Noel Dyson - Mrs. Corcoran (alderman)
*Peter Jones - Robin Willobey (photographer)
*David Lodge - Mr. Ross (editor of the "Tinmouth Times")
*Stanley Unwin - Mr. Nottage (Town Clerk)
*Frances White - Liz Corcoran
*Michael Balfour - Sewerman
*Tony Selby - Harry Marshall (reporter for the "County Chronicle")
*Michael Bilton
*Norman Pitt
*Hazel Coppen - Granny Fork
*Totti Truman Taylor - Mrs. Doe Connor
*Toni Gilpin - P.M.'s secretary
*Gordon Rollings - Bus ConductorPlot
Norman Shields (Norman Wisdom) is a local newspaper seller in London. He is happy with his current job, but is sent by his grandfather, the Prime Minister (also played by Wisdom), to take up a new job as a newspaper reporter in the fictional seaside town of Tinmouth.
During his time in Tinmouth he gets himself into all sorts of trouble while on the job reporting (starting an argument at a political conference, for example). Later in the film he becomes reporter of the entertaiment section of the newspaper, and covers a beauty contest which his girlfriend Liz wins. They later return to London together, leaving a more politically settled Tinmouth behind.
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*imdb title|id=0060857|title=Press for Time
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