''No Smoking!'' is a 1952 British TV play.
It was
adapted into a 1955 film.
Premise
A chemist invents a cure for smoking.
Cast
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Robert Beatty
Robert Rutherford Beatty (19 October 1909 – 3 March 1992) was a Canadian actor who worked in film, television and radio for most of his career and was especially known in the UK.
Early years
Beatty was born in Hamilton, Ontario, the son of ...
as Hal Hurst
*
Alan Webb as Mr. Bates
*
Jane Barrett
Jane Barrett (1922 – 1969) was an English actress.
Barrett was born in Highgate, left school aged 14 and studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She worked extensively in radio, theatre and television. It was estimated she appeared in o ...
as Joyce Bates
*Harold Jamieson as Potman
*
Christopher Hodge
Christopher Grose-Hodge (6 March 1924 – 14 February 1998) was a British fencer. He competed in the team épée at the 1952 Summer Olympics
The 1952 Summer Olympics (, ), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad (, ) and commonly k ...
as Rustic
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Noel Dyson
Elsie Noel Dyson (23 December 1916 – 29 June 1995) was an English character actress.
Dyson played a number of roles in theatre, television and films (including in telemovies) but is best remembered as a versatile character actress in TV seri ...
as Mrs. Ellis
*Alexis Milne as Housemaid
*Peter Bathurst as Vicar
*Walter Horsbrugh as Squire
*Harold Siddons as Reg Shipman
*Shelagh Fraser as Sylvia
*Francis de Wolff as Mr. Wellington-Simpson
*John Vere as Thackeray
*Robert Sandford as Jerry
*Lloyd Lamble as Match magnate
*Christopher Hodge as First tramp
*Morris Sweden as Second tramp
*Meadows White as Mayor
*H. G. Stoker as Prime Minister
*Leonard Sachs as Chancellor of Exchequer
Reception
It was described by the ''
Daily Mail
The ''Daily Mail'' is a British daily Middle-market newspaper, middle-market Tabloid journalism, tabloid conservative newspaper founded in 1896 and published in London. , it has the List of newspapers in the United Kingdom by circulation, h ...
'' as "plenty of good family fun." ''The Sunday Mercury'' thought it "a little slow moving" but had a "happy idea.. idealy suited for TV."
''The Daily Herald'' felt the idea "was all right... but it went wrong. The characters were so typed and the situations were so obvious." The ''Evening Mail'' called it "rich comedy".
References
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1952 television plays
Works by Rex Rienits