Main Cast: Stanley Holloway, Peggy Cummins, Jack Watling, Barbara Murray, Joseph Tomelty
Release Year: 1953
Country: UK
Run Time: 81 minutes
Plot
Though Meet Mr. Lucifer reads rather better than it plays, the film is still good for a few healthy laughs. Stanley Holloway plays Hollingsworth, an actor who is playing Lucifer in a stage production. While being hoisted through a trap door, Hollingsworth is knocked cold. While unconscious, he is replaced by the real Lucifer. Seeking about for a new form of deviltry to inflict upon the public, Lucifer comes up with the most hellish device of all: Television! The rest of the film details the effects that the boob tube has on otherwise normal, rational British citizens (there's even time for a swipe at 3D movies). Based on a play by Arnold Ridley, Meet Mr. Lucifer is enhanced by an all-star cast, including Peggy Cummins, Kay Kendall and Ernst Thesiger. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Kay Kendall - Lonely Hearts Singer; Gordon Jackson - Hector McPhee; Charles Victor - Mr. Elder; Humphrey Lestocq - Arthur Simmonds; Ernst Thesiger - Mr. Macdonald; Jean Cadell - Mrs. Macdonald; Ian Carmichael - Man Friday; Diane Cilento; Bill Fraser - Band Leader; Fred Griffiths; Molly Hamley-Clifford; Irene Handl - Lady with Dog; Gladys Henson - Lady in Bus; Roddy Hughes - Billings; Raymond Huntley - Mr. Patterson; Geoffrey Keen - Mr. Lucifer; Eliot Makeham - Edwards; Edie Martin - Deaf Woman; Dandy Nichols - Mrs. Clarke; Frank Pettingell - Mr. Roberts; Joan Sims - Fairy Queen; Olive Sloane - Mrs. Stannard; Toke Townley; Gilbert Harding - Himself; Eddie Leslie; Herbert C. Walton; Macdonald Hobley; David Miller - Himself
Credit
Wilfred Shingleton - Art Director, Anthony Pelissier - Director, Bernard Gribble - Editor, Eric Rogers - Composer (Music Score), Desmond Dickinson - Cinematographer, Monja Danischewsky - Producer, Monja Danischewsky - Screenwriter, Peter Myers - Screenwriter, Arnold Ridley - Play Author
When Mr Pedelty (Joseph Tomelty) leaves his firm, he is given a television set as a retirement gift. At first he enjoys all the attention from his neighbours, but soon the attraction wears off, and he sells it on to a young married couple (Jack Watling and Peggy Cummins) living in the flat above him. They soon encounter the same problems, and again the set is passed on to several different characters all with the same results.
