Meet Me Tonight (1952) [N/A]
Featuring:
Ted Ray, Kay Walsh, Martita Hunt
Written by:
Noël Coward
George Barraud
Directed by:
Anthony Pelissier
Release Date:
September 9, 1952
Original Title:
Meet Me Tonight
Alternate Titles:
Tonight at 8:30
Genres:
Comedy
Production Companies:
British Film-Makers
J. Arthur Rank Organisation
Production Countries:
United Kingdom
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 81
Meet Me Tonight was the American title for the British-filmed Tonight at 8:30, adapted from the Noel Coward stage production of the same name.
An omnibus of three Noel Coward tales: the first, "The Red Peppers" (featuring Kay Walsh, Ted Ray, Martita Hunt, Frank Pettingell and Bill Fraser) about a bickering vaudeville couple who form an alliance when some of their company start to needle them, and ends up in some non-amusing slapstick. The second episode is "Fumed Oak" (with Stanley Holloway, Betty Ann Davies, Mary Merrall and Dorothy Gordon) is about a squabbling, middle-class family where Holloway has to contend with a ghastly mother-in-law, a selfish wife and a whining, complaining child and, after 17 years, tells each of them off and departs their company. The third segment is "Ways and Means" (with Valerie Hobson, Nigel Patrick, Jack Warner and Jessie Royce Landis) about a pair of parasites who go from city to city as non-paying guests of wealthy acquaintances. A wealthy American widow is trying to quietly kick them out of her French Riviera home, and the couple, needing funds to get to Venice, hatch a scheme to fleece her out of her gambling winnings.
