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Press for Time is a British film of genre Comedy directed by Robert Asher with Norman Wisdom
Press for Time (1966)
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Add to a movie listPress for Time is a 1966 British comedy film starring Norman Wisdom. The screenplay was written by Eddie Leslie and Norman Wisdom, based on the 1963 novel Yea Yea Yea, by Angus McGill. It was partly filmed in Teignmouth in Devon. It was the last film Wisdom made for the Rank Organisation.
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Norman Shields (Norman Wisdom) is a local newspaper seller in London. He is happy with his current job, but is sent by his grandfather, the Prime Minister (also played by Wisdom), to take up a new job as a newspaper reporter in the fictional seaside town of Tinmouth.Actors
Norman Wisdom
(Norman Sheilds)
Derek Bond
(Maj. R.E. Bartlett)
Derek Francis
(Ernest Corcoran)
Allan Cuthbertson
(Mr. Ballard)
Angela Browne
(Eleanor Lampton)
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