Give Us the Moon (1944)
The Caryl Brahams-S. J. Simon novel The Elephant is White is the basis for the British Give us the Moon. Comic actor Vic Oliver delivers a broad performance as Sascha, a dour suicide-prone chap who belongs to an "I won't work" club. The organization was founded by Nina (Margaret Lockwood) on behalf of those who have no intention of ever making a living, and who make no bones about it. Romance enters the picture when the industrious son (Peter Graves) of a hotel owner poses as a member of the idle rich, the better to be close to Nina. To take the curse off an "unemployment" comedy in the middle of WW2 (when everyone was expected to "do their bit"), Give Us the Moon is set in a fanciful postwar London. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Margaret Lockwood, Vic Oliver, (more)
- Director(s):
- Val Guest, Caryl Brahms, (more)
Synopsis of Give Us the Moon
The Caryl Brahams-S. J. Simon novel The Elephant is White is the basis for the British Give us the Moon. Comic actor Vic Oliver delivers a broad performance as Sascha, a dour suicide-prone chap who belongs to an "I won't work" club. The organization was founded by Nina (Margaret Lockwood) on behalf of those who have no intention of ever making a living, and who make no bones about it. Romance enters the picture when the industrious son (Peter Graves) of a hotel owner poses as a member of the idle rich, the better to be close to Nina. To take the curse off an "unemployment" comedy in the middle of WW2 (when everyone was expected to "do their bit"), Give Us the Moon is set in a fanciful postwar London. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Give Us the Moon
- Margaret Lockwood - Nina
- Roland Culver - Ferdinand
- Frank Cellier - Pyke
- George Relph - Otto
- Alan Keith - Raphael
- Iris Lang - Tania
- Frank Atkinson
- Patricia Owens
- George Hirste
- Arthur Denton
- John Salew
- Harry Fowler
- Irene Handl - Miss Haddock
- Vic Oliver - Sascha
- Peter Graves - Peter Pyke
- Eliot Makeham - Dumka
- Max Bacon - Jacobus
- Jean Simmons - Heidi
- Gibb McLaughlin - Marcel
- Dorothy Bramhall
- Arty Ash
- Jonathan Field
- Monte de Lyle
- Charles Paton
- Rosamond Greenwood
- Henry Hewitt - Announcer
- Director(s):
- Caryl Brahms, Val Guest
- Writer(s):
- Howard Irving Young, Val Guest, Caryl Brahms
- Producer(s):
- Edward Black
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