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Miss MacTaggart Won't Lie Down (1966)

Miss MacTaggart Won't Lie Down poster
Directed by
Francis Searle
Genre
comedy, crime
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
28 min
Rating
8.3 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A short British comedy about a woman who refuses to give up. She causes trouble for those around her.

lightheartedwhimsicalgentlemildly amusinglow-keybritishnostalgic

What happens

Miss MacTaggart Won't Lie Down is a 1966 British short comedy film directed by Francis Searle and starring Barbara Mullen. It was written by Elwyn Ambrose. Miss MacTaggart Won't Lie Down is the first in a series of 30-minute films directed by Searle in the "Screen Miniatures" series, which he made between 1966 and 1972. Others in the series are The Pale Faced Girl (1968), Talk of the Devil (1968), Gold Is Where You Find It (1968), It All Goes to Show (1969), A Hole Lot of Trouble (1971) and A Couple of Beauties (1972). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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