"A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange ability; if she's in the vicinity of a machine for more than fifteen minutes, it stops working."
Sally Ann Howes
as Jennifer Peters
Gordon Jackson
as Jock Melville
Basil Radford
as The Mechanical Type
Naunton Wayne
James Robertson Justice
as Arthur Peters
Sonia Holm
as Angela Carew
Nigel Buchanan
as Roy Fairfax
Joyce Barbour
as Aunt Mab
Campbell Cotts
as John Fairfax
Cyril Chamberlain
as Johnnie
Julia Lang
as Carole Saunders
Percy Walsh
as Editor, Evening Comet
Oliver Burt
as Editor, Morning Sun
Kenneth More
as Police Sgt. 'Bonzo'
Humphrey Lestocq
as Radio Commentator
Vincent Ball
as Hero in cinema sequence
Anne Valery
as Heroine in cinema sequence
Michael Goodliffe
as McPherson
Michael Balfour
as Crook (uncredited)
John Boxer
as Pub Landlord (uncredited)
Fred Griffiths
as Truck Driver (uncredited)
Sam Kydd
as Railway Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
Arthur Lowe
as Archibald (uncredited)
Jack May
as Newspaper Seller (uncredited)
William Mervyn
as Cinema Manager (uncredited)
Douglas Seale
as Jeweller's Assistant (uncredited)
André van Gyseghem
as Ex-Editor of Evening Comet (uncredited)
Jack Vyvyan
as Hotel Porter (uncredited)
Patrick Waddington
as Airline Director (uncredited)
Michael Ward
as Hairdressers' Manager (uncredited)
Sidney Hayers
Editor
Pearl Falconer
Costume Design
Donald B. Wilson
Producer
Basil Thomas
Writer
T. J. Morrison
Douglas Daniels
Production Design
Michael Barry
Director
Walter Goehr
Original Music Composer
Cyril Bristow
Director of Photography
Conductor
Leonard Trumm
Sound Editor
Denis Holt
Production Manager
Adele Reynolds
Continuity
Dicky Leeman
Assistant Director
Arthur Ibbetson
Camera Operator
Bill Allan