© 2026 The Couch Critic
Status
Released
Release
1949
Runtime
1h 18m
A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange ability; if she's in the vicinity of a machine for more than fifteen minutes, it stops working.
30 Cast Members
Sally Ann Howes
Jennifer Peters
Gordon Jackson
Jock Melville
Basil Radford
The Mechanical Type
Naunton Wayne
The Mechanical Type
James Robertson Justice
Arthur Peters
Sonia Holm
Angela Carew
Nigel Buchanan
Roy Fairfax
Joyce Barbour
Aunt Mab
Campbell Cotts
John Fairfax
Cyril Chamberlain
Johnnie
Julia Lang
Carole Saunders
Percy Walsh
Editor, Evening Comet
Oliver Burt
Editor, Morning Sun
Kenneth More
Police Sgt. 'Bonzo'
Humphrey Lestocq
Radio Commentator
Vincent Ball
Hero in cinema sequence
Anne Valery
Heroine in cinema sequence
Michael Goodliffe
McPherson
Michael Balfour
Crook (uncredited)
John Boxer
Pub Landlord (uncredited)