Keep It Clean

Keep It Clean
Keep It Clean
	Original British trade ad
Directed by	David Paltenghi
Screenplay by	Carl Nystrom; R.F. Delderfield
Produced by	Maxwell Setton; John R. Sloan
Starring	Ronald Shiner
Cinematography	Wilkie Cooper; Bernard Lewis (camera operator)
Edited by	John Pomeroy
Music by	Bruce Montgomery
Production; company	A Setton-Sloan Production
Distributed by	Eros Films (UK)
Release date	1 May 1956 (UK)
Running time	75 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Keep It Clean is a 1956 black and white British comedy film directed by David Paltenghi and starring Ronald Shiner as Bert Lane and Joan Sims as Violet Tarbottom.^[1]^[2]

Plot[]

Advertising agent Bert Lane (Ronald Shiner) plans to market his brother-in-law Peter's (Colin Gordon) new miracle cleaning machine. However, Bert's boss Mr. Bouncenboy (James Hayter) wants him to advertise Mrs Anstey's famous crumpets, but Bert's cheesecake advertising slogans incur the wrath of Mrs Anstey (Jean Cadell) and her Purity League, as well as that of his boss.

Cast[]

Ronald Shiner as Bert Lane
James Hayter as Mr. Bouncenboy
Diane Hart as Kitty
Ursula Howells as Pat Anstey
Jean Cadell as Mrs. Anstey
Colin Gordon as Peter
Benny Lee as Tarbottom
Joan Sims as Violet Tarbottom
Denis Shaw as Slogger O'Reilly
Tonia Bern as Colette Dare
Gerald Campion as Rasher
Mark Daly as Stage Door Keeper
Albert Whelan as Gregson
Violet Gould as Lady Pecksniff
Bert Brownbill as George Buxton
Tony Sympson as Little Tailor
Pauline Winter as Bridget
Lillemor Knudsen as Audrey
Henry Longhurst as Magistrate
Roger Maxwell as General Ponsenby-Goreham
Arthur Goullet as Loan Service Official
Norman Rossington as Arthur, the Bearded Ad Artist
Humphrey Kent as Pat's Escort
John Wadham as Loan Service Driver
Harry Purvis as Charlie
Richard George as Police Constable
Frank Forsyth as Inspector at Court
Howard Lang as Police Sergeant
Robert Moore as Theatre Attendant
The Kelroys as Acrobats
Maya Koumani
Yvonne Burke
Lynn Shaw as Showgirls
Christina Lubicz
Anne Lynn
Yvonne Olena
Pat Spencer
Thais Jobbling
Glynne Raymond
Eve Kenney
Diana Satow as Chorus Girls

Reception[]

The film was a commercial disappointment.^[3]

References[]

^ "Keep It Clean". IMDb. May 1956.
^ "Keep It Clean (1956)".
^ Harper, Sue; Porter, Vincent (2003). British Cinema of the 1950s: The Decline of Deference. Oxford University Press. pp. 178–180. ISBN 9780198159346.

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[1] "Keep It Clean". IMDb. May 1956.

[2] "Keep It Clean (1956)".

[3] Harper, Sue; Porter, Vincent (2003). British Cinema of the 1950s: The Decline of Deference. Oxford University Press. pp. 178–180. ISBN 9780198159346.

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