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Stop Press Girl

Stop Press Girl
Directed by Michael Barry
Produced by John Croydon
Screenplay by T.J. Morrison
Basil Thomas
Starring Sally Ann Howes
Gordon Jackson
James Robertson Justice
Kenneth More
Music by Arthur Goehr
Production
company
Aquila Film
Distributed by General Film Distributors
Release date
June 1949 (UK)
Running time
78 min
Country United Kingdom
Language English

Stop Press Girl is a 1949 British fantasy comedy film directed by Michael Barry and starring Sally Ann Howes, Gordon Jackson, Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne; the latter two appearing in several different roles in the film.The film was one of four of David Rawnsley's Aquila Films that used his proposed "independent frame" technique.

Jennifer Peters is a normal girl except for one unfortunate trait. All the women in her family stop any mechanical contrivance that they travel in. As the film progresses, Jennifer stops her boyfriend's automobile, then a train she travels in without being aware of what she does. Tension mounts when a girlfriend takes ill and Jennifer takes her job; an air hostess on a Liberator airliner!



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