A Useful Ghost: A New Modern Classic
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Folly to Be Wise
A newly-arrived army chaplain is put in charge of camp entertainment and has the idea of putting on a Brains Trust with local notables. Unfortunately for him, it emerges from a question on the rights and wrongs of marriage that there is more going on between three of the panelists than he wants to know about - though the audience obviously thinks differently.
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A newly-arrived army chaplain is put in charge of camp entertainment and has the idea of putting on a Brains Trust with local notables. Unfortunately for him, it emerges from a question on the rights and wrongs of marriage that there is more going on between three of the panelists than he wants to know about - though the audience obviously thinks differently.
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Genre:Comedy
Written By:John Dighton, Frank Launder
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Runtime:91 minutes
Studio:British Lion Films
Cast
Frank Launder
Director
Alastair Sim
Capt. William Paris
Elizabeth Allan
Angela Prout
Roland Culver
George Prout
George Cole
Soldier in Brains Trust audience
Colin Gordon
Professor Mutch
Martita Hunt
Lady Dodd
Janet Brown
Jessie
Peter Martyn
Walter
Miles Malleson
Dr. Hector McAdam
Edward Chapman
Joseph Byres M.P.
Cyril Chamberlain
Drill Sergeant
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