Vice Versa (1947)
- Director(s):
- Peter Ustinov
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Written and directed by Peter Ustinov, Vice Versa is a one-joke fantasy comedy which manages to hold up almost to the very end. Anthony Newley plays the funloving son of stuffy stockbroker Roger Livesy. Father and son come into possession of a magic stone, and place a wish upon it. The result: Newley inherits Livesy's brain and personality, and vice versa. The best moments involve the suddenly matured Newley's besting of feet-of-clay schoolmaster James Robertson Justice. Not successful enough to spawn a cycle in 1947, Vice Versa is nonetheless an intriguing precursor of the brief spate of identity-switch comedies of the late 1980s--one of which was also titled Vice Versa. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Alfie Bass - 1st Urchin
- Petula Clark - Dulcie Grimstone
- Robert Eddison - Mr. Blinkhorn
- James Hayter - Bandmaster
- David Hutcheson - Marmaduke Paradine
- James Robertson Justice - Dr. Grimstone
- Roger Livesey - Paul Bultitude
- Kynaston Reeves - Dr. Chawner
- Frank Tickle - Clegg
- Harcourt Williams - Judge
- Peter Jones - Chawner
- Stanley van Beers - Earl of Broadstairs
- Andrew Blackett - Duke of Margate
- Timothy Bateson - Coker
- Hugh Dempster - Col. Ambrose
- John Glyn-Jones - Bindabun Doss
- Vida Hope - 1st Nanny
- Ernest Jay - Boaler
- James Kenney - Coggs
- Patricia Raine - Alice
- Bill Shine - Lord Gosport
- Kay Walsh - Mrs. Verlayne
- Joan Young - Mrs. Grimstone
- Anthony Newley - Dick Bultitude
- Vi Kaley - 2nd Nanny
- Michael McKeag - Jolland
- Director(s):
- Peter Ustinov
- Writer(s):
- Peter Ustinov
- Producer(s):
- Peter Ustinov, George H. Brown
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