No Smoking!


No Smoking! is a 1952 British TV play.
It was adapted into a 1955 film.

Premise

A chemist invents a cure for smoking.

Cast

  • Robert Beatty as Hal Hurst
  • Alan Webb as Mr. Bates
  • Jane Barrett as Joyce Bates
  • Harold Jamieson as Potman
  • Christopher Hodge as Rustic
  • Noel Dyson as Mrs. Ellis
  • Alexis Milne as Housemaid
  • Peter Bathurst as Vicar
  • Walter Horsbrugh as Squire
  • Harold Siddons as Reg Shipman
  • Shelagh Fraser as Sylvia
  • Francis de Wolff as Mr. Wellington-Simpson
  • John Vere as Thackeray
  • Robert Sandford as Jerry
  • Lloyd Lamble as Match magnate
  • Christopher Hodge as First tramp
  • Morris Sweden as Second tramp
  • Meadows White as Mayor
  • H. G. Stoker as Prime Minister
  • Leonard Sachs as Chancellor of Exchequer

    Reception

It was described by the Daily Mail as "plenty of good family fun." The Sunday Mercury thought it "a little slow moving" but had a "happy idea.. idealy suited for TV."
The Daily Herald felt the idea "was all right... but it went wrong. The characters were so typed and the situations were so obvious." The Evening Mail called it "rich comedy".