A Lady Mislaid

A Lady Mislaid
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Directed by	David MacDonald
Written by	Frederick Gotfurt
Based on	A Lady Mislaid by Kenneth Horne
Produced by	Robert Hall
Starring	Phyllis Calvert Alan White Thorley Walters
Cinematography	Norman Warwick
Edited by	Seymour Logie
Music by	Sydney John Kay
Production company	Welwyn Studios
Distributed by	Associated British-Pathé (UK)
Release date	1958 (1958)
Running time	60 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

A Lady Mislaid is a 1958 British comedy film directed by David MacDonald and starring Phyllis Calvert, Alan White and Thorley Walters.^[1] It is based on a 1948 play of the same name by Kenneth Horne.^[2]

Plot[]

Esther, (Phyllis Calvert), and her sister Jennifer, (Gillian Owen), are spinsters. Esther has bought a remote country cottage, and has invited her novelist sister to stay for recuperation. Esther hasn't told Jennifer that a policeman, (Alan White), had called, earlier, had explained that that the police wanted to search the house and gardens for the body of the former owner's wife, and that she'd agreed. When a human skeleton is unearthed in the chicken coup, the finger of suspicion points firmly at the previous occupant, Mr. Smith (Thorley Walters).

Cast[]

• Phyllis Calvert as Esther Williams
• Alan White as Det. Sgt. Bullock
• Thorley Walters as Smith
• as Jennifer
• Richard Leech as George
• Constance Fraser as Mrs. Small
• Sheila Shand Gibbs as Betty

Critical reception[]

The Radio Times gave the film two out of five stars, and wrote, "A quaint idea and a decent cast make perfectly respectable entertainment out of an hour-long British programmer, but there's not much more to be said for it."^[3]

References[]

External links[]

• A Lady Mislaid at IMDb

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