Grand National Night
1953 | 80m | English
Popularity: 1.0 (history)
| Director: | Bob McNaught |
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| Writer: | Bob McNaught |
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| The story of a husband's implication in his wife's death, his stupid disposal of her body and the police enquiry which almost embroils him in a murder charge. | |
| Release Date: | Apr 15, 1953 |
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| Director: | Bob McNaught |
| Writer: | Bob McNaught |
| Genres: | Crime, Thriller |
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Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 04, 2024 Entered: Apr 28, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Nigel Patrick | Gerald Coates |
| Moira Lister | Babs Coates |
| Beatrice Campbell | Joyce Penrose |
| Betty Ann Davies | Pinkie Collins |
| Michael Hordern | Inspector Ayling |
| Noel Purcell | Philip Balfour |
| Leslie Mitchell | Jack Donovan |
| Barry MacKay | Sergeant Gibson |
| Colin Gordon | Buns Darling |
| Gibb McLaughlin | Morton |
| Richard Grayden | Chandler |
| May Hallatt | Hoskyns |
| George Sequira | George |
| Ernest Jay | Railway Official |
| Russell Waters | Plainclothes Detective |
| Richard Graydon | Chandler |
| Name | Job |
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| Anne V. Coates | Editor |
| Bob McNaught | Director, Writer |
| Jack Asher | Director of Photography |
| Muir Mathieson | Music |
| John Greenwood | Music |
| Bill Herlihy | Second Assistant Director |
| Fred Ryan | Boom Operator |
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Popularity History
| Year | Month | Avg | Max | Min |
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| 2024 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 2024 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| 2024 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| 2024 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 2 |
| 2024 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| 2024 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 2024 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 1 |
| 2024 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 2024 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
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What ought to have been night of celebration turns sour for Grand National winning owner "Coates" (Nigel Patrick) when a contretemps with his drunken wife "Babs" (Moira Lister) leaves him the subject of a police investigation. The thing is - what really happened that night and can the pernickety "In ... sp. Ayling" (Michael Hordern) piece it all together? Lister features but sparingly, but her characterisation of "Babs" does rather get under your fingernails, so as the police work proceeded I did start to feel just a bit of sympathy for her rather idiotic, but good natured, husband - and Patrick is on decent form in that role here. It skips along nicely and engagingly for eighty minutes with a solid contribution from the usually reliable Noel Purcell and a soupçon of glamour from the underused Beatrice Campbell too. Maybe not his "latest and greatest screen role" as it said in the publicity blurb, but it's not a bad vehicle for a star who does enough here to keep it interesting, if not exactly intriguing with what must have been a fairly limited budget.