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A Touch of the Sun (1956)

William Darling (Frankie Howerd), the popular and indispensable hall porter at London’s Royal Connaught Hotel, inherits a fortune (£10,000).

After a spree on the French Riviera, Darling – still with thousands of pounds in hand – plans a big future for the old-fashioned hotel. The trouble starts when he tries to put his schemes into operation with the aid of three hard-headed northern financial backers (Reginald Beckwith, Willoughby Goddard and Alfie Bass).

Singer Ruby Murray makes her only film appearance as Darling’s girlfriend, while Dennis Price is in his element as slightly superior hotel manager Digby Hatchard who eventually has to take orders from his erstwhile hall porter.

Richard Wattis, Miriam Karlin and Esma Cannon co-star.

Filmed at Nettlefold Studios in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey.

William Darling
Frankie Howerd
Ruby
Ruby Murray
Digby Hatchard
Dennis Price
Rose Blake
Dorothy Bromiley
Lucienne
Katherine Kath
Sid
Gordon Harker
Purchase
Richard Wattis
Alice Cann
Miriam Karlin
Herbert Hardcastle
Reginald Beckwith
Golightly
Willoughby Goddard
May
Alfie Bass
Louis
Pierre Dudan
Cecil Flick
Colin Gordon
Howard Cann
George Margo
Miss Tickle
Esma Cannon
Aggie
Lucy Griffiths
Miss Caroline Lovejoy
Naomi Chance
Scotty
Ian Whittaker
Belly Dancer
Nana Aslanoglu (as Aiché Nana)

Director
Gordon Parry

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