Who Goes There! Explained

Who Goes There!
Director:Anthony Kimmins
Producer:Anthony Kimmins
Based On:Who Goes There! by John Dighton
Music:Muir Mathieson
Cinematography:Edward Scaife
John Wilcox
Editing:Gerald Turney-Smith
Starring:Nigel Patrick
Valerie Hobson
George Cole
Peggy Cummins
A. E. Matthews
Studio:London Film Productions
Distributor:British Lion Film Corporation
Runtime:85 minutes
Country:United Kingdom
Language:English
Gross:£123,542 (UK)[1]

Who Goes There! is a 1952 British comedy film directed by Anthony Kimmins and starring Nigel Patrick, Valerie Hobson and George Cole. The film depicts the farcical activities of the various inhabitants of a grace and favour house near St James's Palace in Central London.[2]

Production

It is based on a 1950 play of the same title by John Dighton, who also wrote the screenplay. It was shot at Shepperton Studios with some location filming around the Palace in London. The film's sets were designed by the art director Wilfred Shingleton.

Sidney Gilliat claims that Alexander Korda directed the film but gave credit to someone else.[3]

It was retitled The Passionate Sentry for its United States release with American censors removing two uses of the word "Cripes!".[4]

A version of Who Goes There! was broadcast on the BBC Radio Saturday Night Theatre on 20 March 1954.[5]

Cast

Notes and References

  1. Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 20 No 4, 2000 p498
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20090113212240/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/57981 BFI.org
  3. Web site: Interview with Sidney Gilliat. British Entertainment History Project. 15 May 1990. Roy. Fowler. Taffy. Haines. 135.
  4. p. 183 Slide, Anthony Banned in the USA: British Films in the United States and Their Censorship 1998 I.B. Tauris Publishers
  5. Web site: Below is a complete listing of all broadcasts of the Saturday Night Theatre title. https://web.archive.org/web/20191220073929/http://www.saturday-night-theatre.co.uk/broadcasts.php . 2019-12-20. 2023-10-18.