The Crowning Touch

The Crowning Touch
The Crowning Touch
	Original British lobby card
Directed by	David Eady
Written by	Margot Bennett
Produced by	Jon Penington
Starring	Ted Ray; Greta Gynt; Griffith Jones; Dermot Walsh; Irene Handl
Cinematography	Ernest Palmer
Edited by	John Pomeroy
Music by	Edwin Astley
Production; company	Crescent Films
Distributed by	Butcher's Film Service(UK)
Release date	June 1959;
Running time	75 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The Crowning Touch is a 1959 British comedy film directed by David Eady and starring Ted Ray, Irene Handl and Greta Gynt.^[1]

Plot

The "Crowning Touch" of the title is a fancy ladies hat. It has been ordered and specially set aside at a posh British hat shop, but no one has come to collect it. Three of the shop's staff offer different reasons as to why the pretty young girl who'd ordered the hat never showed up.

Cast

Ted Ray as Bert
Greta Gynt as Rosie
Griffith Jones as Mark
Sydney Tafler as Joe
Dermot Walsh as Aubrey Drake
Maureen Connell as Julia
Colin Gordon as Stacey
Irene Handl as Bebe
Allan Cuthbertson as Philip
Diane Hart as Tess
Joan Benham as Daphne
Maurice Kaufmann as David

Critical reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "This quartet of magazine stories is smoothly linked by a generally amusing and entertaining script, while the production's acting and technical qualities are passably good."^[2]

Allmovie called the film "a serviceable British shaggy-dog story, graced by the presence of such top talents as Greta Gynt, Griffith Jones, Sydney Tafler, Dermot Walsh and Irene Handl."^[3]

TV Guide called it an "okay English comedy ... A number of distinguished performers lift this one above the average."^[4]

References

^ "The Crowning Touch". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
^ "The Crowning Touch". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 26 (300): 105. 1 January 1959 – via ProQuest.
^ "The Crowning Touch (1959) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast". AllMovie. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
^ "The Crowning Touch Review". Movies.tvguide.com. Retrieved 23 April 2014.

External links

The Crowning Touch at IMDb

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[BFIsearch-1] "The Crowning Touch". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 27 January 2024.

[2] "The Crowning Touch". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 26 (300): 105. 1 January 1959 – via ProQuest.

[3] "The Crowning Touch (1959) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast". AllMovie. Retrieved 23 April 2014.

[4] "The Crowning Touch Review". Movies.tvguide.com. Retrieved 23 April 2014.

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