Trouble with Eve | |
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Directed by | Francis Searle |
Screenplay by | Brock Williams |
Based on | "Widows are Dangerous", play by June Garland |
Produced by | Tom Blakeley |
Starring | Hy Hazell Sally Smith Robert Urquhart Garry Marsh |
Cinematography | Walter J. Harvey (as James Harvey) |
Edited by | Eric Boyd-Perkins |
Music by | Wilfred Burns |
Production company | A Mancunian Butcher Production |
Distributed by | Butcher's Film Service (UK) |
Release date | March 1960 (UK) |
Running time | 65 min. |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Trouble with Eve is a 1960 British second feature[1] comedy film directed by Francis Searle and starring Hy Hazell, Sally Smith, Robert Urquhart and Garry Marsh.[2] It was based on the play Widows are Dangerous by June Garland.[3] It was shot at Walton Studios. The film was released in the U.S. in 1964 as In Trouble With Eve.[4]
In the sleepy English village of Warlock, Louise Kingston converts her cottage into "The Willow Tree", a commercial tearoom. However, scandal ensues when the local inspector gets caught with his pants down, and the tea room is rumoured to be a brothel.
Chibnall and McFarlane in The British 'B' Film wrote that the film: "despite its shop-worn late-of-the-West-End look, moves along breezily and the competent actors make the most of their amusing lines."[5]
In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "poor", writing: "Slaptick farce devoid of inspiration."[1]
TV Guide called the film "a barely average British comedy."[6]