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Fast and Loose is a 1954 British comedy film directed by Gordon Parry and starring Stanley Holloway, Kay Kendall and Brian Reece. The film was shot at Pinewood Studios near London with sets designed by the art director John Howell. It was based on the play A Cuckoo in the Nest by Ben Travers, the first of his Aldwych farces, which had previously been adapted as a 1933 film of the same title.

Fast and Loose
British poster by Eric Pulford
Directed by	Gordon Parry
Written by	Ben Travers A.R. Rawlinson
Based on	A Cuckoo in the Nest by Ben Travers
Produced by	Teddy Baird
Starring	Stanley Holloway Kay Kendall Brian Reece
Cinematography	Jack Asher Reginald H. Morris
Edited by	Frederick Wilson
Music by	Philip Green
Production company	Group Film Productions
Distributed by	General Film Distributors
Release date	15 March 1954 (1954-03-15)
Running time	75 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Plot

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An unmarried couple are forced to adopt a series of pretexts when they stay at a country inn together with only one spare room.[1]

Cast

• Stanley Holloway as Major George Crabb
• Kay Kendall as Carol Hankin
• Brian Reece as Peter Wickham
• Charles Victor as Lumper
• June Thorburn as Barbara 'Babsie' Wickham
• Reginald Beckwith as Reverend Tripp-Johnson
• Vida Hope as Gladys
• Joan Young as Mrs. Gullett, Inn Manageress
• Fabia Drake as Mrs Crabb
• Dora Bryan as Mary Rawlings, the maid
• Aubrey Mather as Noony
• Toke Townley as Alfred
• Alexander Gauge as Hankin
• Eliot Makeham as Railway porter
• John Warren as Chauffeur

Critical reception

TV Guide called the film an "unfunny remake of A Cuckoo in the Nest (1933)."[2]

References

External links

• Fast and Loose at IMDb

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