The Extra Day (1956)

IMDb blurb "The final scene of a film has been lost and the extras have to be rounded up for it to be re-shot." Really? Yawn.........

With token Yank Richard Basehart in a leading part and that awful 1950s colour, I totally lost interest in this after about ½ hour and watched summat else.

Well known faces I saw were Sid James, who never looks any different, a very thin faced Patrick Cargill and very young looking, with mop of hair (!) (the Rev. Timothy Farthing) Frank Williams, but none could save it.

Don't bother - read a comic, Dandy or Beano would have more humour in them.

Was Richard Basehart the one who seemed to play all the Yanks in British dramas at the time?

You're might be thinking off Shane Rimmer ( Ooh-err!) - a Canadian who did a lot of American parts in UK things - plus voice-over work on Thunderbirds,
Richard Basehart was the captain of the Sub in "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"

Quote: Chappers @ 17th August 2020, 2:17 PM

Was Richard Basehart the one who seemed to play all the Yanks in British dramas at the time?

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Well this is the first UK film I've seen him in as the token Yank to appeal (not) to the American market in the 1950s. I don't remember Shane Rimmer, but there have been a lot of Canadian/Americans such as Paul Carpenter mostly or Robert Beatty.