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Derby Day is a British film of genre Drama directed by Herbert Wilcox released in USA on 16 december 1952 with Anna Neagle

Derby Day (1952)

Derby Day
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Released in USA 16 december 1952
Length 1h24
Directed by
Genres Drama
Rating63% 3.19133.19133.19133.19133.1913

Derby Day is a 1952 British drama film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Googie Withers, John McCallum and Alfie Bass. An ensemble piece, it portrays several characters on their way to the Derby Day races at Epsom Downs Racecourse. It was an attempt to revive the success that Neagle and Wilding had previously had opposite each other, but it failed in this regard. In an effort to promote the film Wilcox arranged for Neagle to launch the film at the 1952 Epsom Derby. In the United States it was released as Four against Fate.

While making the film Wilding began dating Elizabeth Taylor, who was in London filming Ivanhoe, and later became her second husband.

Synopsis

On the morning of the Epsom Derby, a disparate group of people prepare to go to the races. Lady Helen Forbes, a recently widowed aristocrat is planning to make the journey in spite of the disapproval of her social set who consider it unseemly to go while still in mourning. David Scott, a newspaper cartoonist is ordered to go by his editor against his wishes. Meanwhile, as part of a charity raffle, a dissolute film star, Gerald Berkeley, is to escort a wealthy grand dame to Epsom for the day something he is equally reluctant about. Happily she falls and injures her leg, and her crafty housekeeper arranges for one of the young maids to go in her place. Meanwhile, in Battersea, a lodger kills a man whose wife he is having an affair with. They plan to flee the country, and also head to Epsom where he knows a tipster who can smuggle them out.

Actors

Anna Neagle

(Lady Helen Forbes)Michael Wilding

(David Scott)Googie Withers

(Betty Molloy)Toni Edgar-Bruce

(Mrs. Harbottle-Smith)Samuel John Kydd

(Harry Bunn)
And :
John McCallum
Robert Brown
Suzanne Cloutier
Gordon Harker
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