Poet's Pub

A loosely structured comedy allowing for a series of vignettes based around an ancient coaching inn. The story was adapted from the 1929 novel by Scottish writer Erik Linklater.

Cast

Derek Bond

as Saturday Keith

Rona Anderson

as Joanna Benbow

James Robertson Justice

as Prof. Benbow

John McLaren

as Elmer Van Buren

Barbara Murray

as Nelly Bly

Peter Croft

as Quentin Cotton

Leslie Dwyer

as Holly

Joyce Grenfell

as Miss Horsefell-Hughes

Fabia Drake

as Lady Mercy Cotton

Maurice Denham

as PC Windle

Reviews

CinemaSerf

This opens up with a quite a fun exchange between poet "Saturday Keith" (Derek Bond) - "Frankly, sir, I'm lost for words" and literary critic "Prof. Benbow" (James Robertson Justice) - "I know, sir, I've read your works..." that rather sets the tone for this light-hearted post-war comedy set in a ru...

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