The Chiltern Hundreds 1949 DVD

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Few actors could be better suited than David Tomlinson for the role of a doltish viscount unintentionally entangled in politics & this brisk 1949 satire was a huge success both for the accomplished character player & his similarly gifted co-stars Cecil Parker & eighty-year-old film veteran AE Matthews The Chiltern Hundreds is directed by John Paddy Carstairs
- whose later career encompassed a string of box-office hits with the likes of Frankie Howerd Norman Wisdom & Tommy Steele
- & is presented here in a br&-new transfer from the original film elements Young Viscount Tony Pym wangles National Service leave on the pretext of standing as a Tory candidate for a local seat held by his family for generations The request is a ruse to enable Pym to marry his wealthy American fiancee while she&s still in England but his masterplan backfires when he finds himself swept into an election campaign & beaten by Labour&s Mr Cleghorn
- who is then made a peer In an attempt to save face Pym decides to stand again
- as a socialist It all proves too much for the Pyms& loyal true-blue butler Mr Beecham