It's Hard to Be Good

It's Hard to Be Good is a 1948 British comedy film directed by Jeffrey Dell and starring Jimmy Hanley, Anne Crawford and Raymond Huntley.^[1] In the film, an ex-army officer and do-gooder finds his attempts to improve the world leads invariably to disasters.^[2]

It was shot at Denham Studios. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alex Vetchinsky.

Cast

• Anne Crawford as Mary Leighton
• Jimmy Hanley as Captain James Gladstone Wedge VC
• Raymond Huntley as Williams
• Edward Rigby as Parkinson
• Elwyn Brook-Jones as Budibent
• Joyce Carey as Alice Beckett
• Geoffrey Keen as Sergeant Todd
• Lana Morris as Daphne
• David Horne as Edward Beckett
• Muriel Aked as Ellen Beckett
• Cyril Smith as Fred Hobson
• Leslie Weston as Buck
• Alison Leggatt as Mrs Buck
• Robert Adair as Committee Man
• Francis De Wolff as Fighting Neighbour
• Judith Furse as Sister Taylor
• Colin Gordon as Neighbour with Baby
• Joan Hickson as Mending Woman
• Sam Kydd as Husband
• Leslie Perrins as Major Gordon
• Wensley Pithey as Vicar
• Walter Rilla as Kamerovsky
• John Salew as Committee Man
• Marianne Stone as Clerk in Newspaper Office
• Merle Tottenham as Mrs. Hobson
• Ian Wilson as Fighting Neighbour

References

Bibliography

• Gillett, Philip. Forgotten British Film: Value and the Ephemeral in Postwar Cinema. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

External links

• It's Hard to Be Good on IMDb