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Kill or Cure is a British film of genre Comedy directed by George Pollock with Terry-Thomas
Kill or Cure (1962)
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Add to a movie listKill or Cure is a 1962 British comedy film, in which an inept police officer is called to investigate the strange goings-on at a health club. It was filmed mainly at Aldenham House in Elstree, Hertfordshire in the summer of 1961. The house was used for many of the inside shots together with the surrounding parkland for the holiday chalets. Filming was still taking place in September 1961 as the Haberdashers' Aske's School for Boys moved into a new school built on the rest of the site having just moved from Hampstead. The house became the administrative centre for the school with the school reception being where the hotel reception is in the film.
Synopsis
Un agent de police inepte est appelé à enquêter sur d'étranges allées et venues dans un club sportif.Actors
Terry-Thomas
(Capt. J. (Jeroboam) Barker-Rynde PI)
Eric Sykes
(Rumbelow)
Dennis Price
(Dr. Julian Crossley)
Lionel Jeffries
(Det. Insp. Hook)
Moira Redmond
(Frances Roitman)
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