The Fast Lady
| The Fast Lady | |
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original film poster
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| Directed by | Ken Annakin |
| Produced by | Leslie Parkyn Julian Wintle |
| Written by | Henry Blyth Jack Davies |
| Starring |
Stanley Baxter James Robertson Justice Leslie Phillips Julie Christie |
| Music by | Norrie Paramor |
| Cinematography | Reginald H. Wyer |
| Edited by | Ralph Sheldon |
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Production
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| Distributed by |
The Rank Organisation (UK) Continental Distributing (US) |
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Release date
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December 1962 (London West End) |
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Running time
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95 min |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
The Fast Lady is a 1962 British comedy film, directed by Ken Annakin. The screenplay was written by Henry Blyth and Jack Davies, based on a story by Keble Howard. It was Julie Christie's second film.
The film opened at the Odeon Marble Arch on December 1962
Murdoch Troon (Stanley Baxter) is a dour Scot living and working for a local government authority somewhere in the south of London. A shy young man, his main excitement comes from cycling. After he's forced off the road by an impatient car driver, he tracks down the owner, only to find that he is Commander Chingford (James Robertson Justice), the domineering and acerbic owner of a sportscar distributorship.
Chingford reluctantly pays for the damage to Troon's cycle, but more significantly, Troon meets Claire (Julie Christie), Chingford's beautiful blonde daughter. He is smitten with her and, after she tells him she loves sports cars and would love to have one but "her great dictator" (meaning her father) won't allow it, he is talked into buying a car to impress her by Troon's friend and fellow lodger, Freddie Fox (Leslie Phillips), a used car salesman and serial cad. Fox sees a chance to ingratiate himself with Chingford and also to sell Troon a car. The car is a 1927 vintage Bentley 4.5-litre engined Red Label Speed model, painted in British Racing Green and named The Fast Lady.
Troon has his first driving lesson in a less exciting car, an Austin A40 Farina, which proves to be a comedy of disasters with a nervous instructor (Eric Barker). Fox then makes a deal with Troon and offers to teach him, but the results are equally disastrous.
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