Nigel Patrick

Moira Lister

Beatrice Campbell

Betty Ann Davies

Michael Hordern

Noel Purcell

Leslie Mitchell

Barry MacKay

Colin Gordon

Gibb McLaughlin

Richard Grayden

May Hallatt

George Sequira

Ernest Jay

Russell Waters

Richard Graydon

Bob McNaught

Muir Mathieson

Jack Asher

John Greenwood

Anne V. Coates

Bill Herlihy

Fred Ryan

Crime

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Grand National Night

United Kingdom

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What ought to have been night of celebration turns sour for Grand National winning owner "Coates" (Nigel Patrick) when a contretemps with his drunken wife "Babs" (Moira Lister) leaves him the subject of a police investigation. The thing is - what really happened that night and can the pernickety "Insp. Ayling" (Michael Hordern) piece it all together? Lister features but sparingly, but her characterisation of "Babs" does rather get under your fingernails, so as the police work proceeded I did start to feel just a bit of sympathy for her rather idiotic, but good natured, husband - and Patrick is on decent form in that role here. It skips along nicely and engagingly for eighty minutes with a solid contribution from the usually reliable Noel Purcell and a soupçon of glamour from the underused Beatrice Campbell too. Maybe not his "latest and greatest screen role" as it said in the publicity blurb, but it's not a bad vehicle for a star who does enough here to keep it interesting, if not exactly intriguing with what must have been a fairly limited budget.

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Grand National Night

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