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Calling All Cars (1954)

Calling All Cars poster
Directed by
Maclean Rogers
Genre
comedy, documentary
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
44 min
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A short comedy film that mixes real footage of the port of Dover with a story about two young men who chase after two girls in an old taxi.

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What happens

Calling All Cars is a 1954 British short second feature ('B') black and white film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Spike Milligan (voice only), Cardew Robinson and John Fitzgerald. The film is a mixture of semi-documentary about the port of Dover and a comedy about two young men who decide to chat up two girls and follow them to Dover in an old taxicab. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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