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Bothered by a Beard (1945)

Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1945
Running Times: 36 mins
Format: black and white
Ratio:
Sound: mono

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: GB Instructional Films
Producer: E.V.H. Emmett

SCRIPT
Script: E.V.H. Emmett

DIRECTION
Director: E.V.H. Emmett

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Jack Rose

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: W.T. Lowe

MUSIC
Music Director: Bretton Byrd

SOUND
Recording: Eric Humphriss

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: W.T. Partleton

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Jack Drury

CAST
Tod Slaughter (Sweeney Todd)
Jerry Verno
John Salew
Franklyn Bennett
Dorothy Bramhall
Anthony Baird
Arthur Denton
Desmond Roberts
Clifford Buckton
Howard Douglas
Van Boden

PLOT SUMMARY

An educational short about the history of shaving, included here because of a brief sequence featuring Tod Slaughter as Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

AVAILABILITY

UK
Theatrical Distributor: GFD Ltd

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

Kinematograph Weekly no.2021 (10 January 1946) (UK)
review

Monthly Film Bulletin vol.13 no.145 (January 1946) p.1 (UK)
credits, review

Today's Cinema vol.66 no.5289 (9 January 1946) (UK)
review

KEYWORDS

shaving

 


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