Carol Cleveland

Tony Tanner

Joan Sims

Graham Stark

Jeanne Moody

Eric Dodson

Toni Palmer

Murray Kash

Christine Hargreaves

Juliet Cooke

Eddie Leslie

Duncan Lewis

Valerie Walsh

Bernard Goldman

Edward Caddick

Tony Hawes

Alan Baulch

Pamela Manson

Reginald H. Wyer

Roy Walker

Arthur Alcott

William P. Cartlidge

Ray Sturgess

Joy Mercer

John Wilcox

Helene Bevan

Vi Murray

Tristam Cones

Simon Kaye

Ken Scrivener

Johnny Douglas

E.M. Smedley-Aston

Vernon Sewell

Mike Fox

Comedy

Strictly for the Birds

Independent Artists

United Kingdom

CinemaSerf

This is really just a vehicle for small-time theatre star Tony Tanner, and it's doesn't really add up to much. He ("Terry") is having a good night having found a penny on the street and by one means or another turned it into a tidy twenty quid. There is soon quite a fly in his ointment, though, when an ex turns up and deposits "Alfie" (Alan Baulch) on him, claiming he is their son. What now ensues is a rather predictable series of scenarios that though occasionally lit up by Joan Simms as the landlady "Peggy", these recycle themselves a bit too often. Tanner has timing and some personality, but somehow this film just neuters that quite effectively with a really limiting stage-like production and some borderline inane dialogue. There is plenty of London photography, but after a few scenes that becomes unremarkable too. Saturday afternoon B-feature fodder, that's all, I'm afraid.

English

Strictly for the Birds

Cast

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