Kill or Cure
Directed byGeorge Pollock
Screenplay byDavid Pursall
Jack Seddon
Story byDavid Pursall
Jack Seddon
Produced byGeorge H. Brown
StarringTerry-Thomas
Eric Sykes
CinematographyGeoffrey Faithfull
Edited byBert Rule
Music byRon Goodwin
Color processBlack and white
Production
companies
George H. Brown Productions
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios
Distributed byMetro Goldwyn Mayer
Release dates
  • September 1962 (1962-09) (UK)
  • November 12, 1962 (1962-11-12) (NYC)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Kill or Cure is a 1962 British comedy film directed by George Pollock and starring Terry-Thomas and Eric Sykes.[1][2]

Plot

Mr Barker Rynde comes to a country hotel to assist a wealthy widow. He endures a nature cure diet and exercises under Rumbelow. When the widow is poisoned, Barker Rynde and Rumbelow join forces to win a reward offered by the hotel manager Crossley. Crossley is next murdered, and the clues point to the original criminal.

Cast

Reception

According to MGM records, the film made a profit of $89,000.[3]

See also

References

  1. โ†‘ " I had come across the American slang term "kill-or-cure" for "Keeley cure..." Elliott C. Lasser, M.D., in Gallbladder Mucosa in Cholecystography (JAMA, 1965;193(6):427-431. doi:10.1001/jama.1965.03090060017003).
  2. โ†‘ "Jim Townsend calls the Keeley cure the 'kill or cure.'" The Weekly Gazette And Stockman, Reno, Nevada. Thursday, July 6, 1893.
  3. โ†‘ The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.


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