Miss Pilgrim's Progress | |
Director: | Val Guest |
Producer: | Nat Cohen Daniel Angel |
Starring: | Michael Rennie Yolande Donlan Garry Marsh |
Music: | Philip Martell Ronald Hanmer (uncredited) |
Cinematography: | Bert Mason |
Editing: | Douglas Myers |
Studio: | Angel Productions |
Distributor: | Grand National Pictures |
Runtime: | 82 minutes |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | English |
Miss Pilgrim's Progress is a 1949 black-and-white British comedy film by producer Nat Cohen and director Val Guest.[1]
Laramie Pilgrim (Yolande Donlan) is an American exchange factory worker who trades places with an upper class British girl. After much adjusting to English country life, and with the various attendant culture clashes, Miss Pilgrim comes to the rescue of her new village and its exploitation by a local land developer.
Uncredited:
Val Guest wrote the film as a vehicle for Yolande Dolan, who had been a sensation in London in Born Yesterday and whom he would later marry. The male lead was Michael Rennie, who Guest had given his first leading man part; Rennie returned from Hollywood to appear in it.
Guest says the film was "a big success" and let to Dolan and Rennie being reunited on The Body Said No!.[2]
TV Guide gave the film two out of four stars, and wrote, "the script relies on the surefire technique of cultural differences for humor, with the English countryside providing a pleasant background."[3]