Brothers in Law (film)

Brothers in Law
Directed byRoy Boulting
Screenplay byRoy Boulting
Jeffrey Dell
Frank Harvey Jr.
Based onBrothers in Law
by Henry Cecil
Produced byJohn Boulting
StarringRichard Attenborough
Ian Carmichael
Terry-Thomas
Jill Adams
Miles Malleson
CinematographyMutz Greenbaum
Edited byAnthony Harvey
Music byBenjamin Frankel
Distributed byBritish Lion Films
Tudor
Release date
  • 5 March 1957 (1957-03-05)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Brothers in Law is a 1957 British comedy film directed by Roy Boulting and starring Richard Attenborough, Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas and Jill Adams.[1] The film is one of the Boulting brothers successful series of institutional satires that begun with Private's Progress in 1956.[2] It is an adaptation of the 1955 novel Brothers in Law by Henry Cecil, a comedy set in the legal profession.[3]

  1. ^ "Brothers in Law (1956)". BFI. Archived from the original on 12 July 2012.
  2. ^ "BFI Screenonline: Boulting Brothers". screenonline.org.uk.
  3. ^ Hal Erickson. "The Brothers in Law (1957) - Roy Boulting - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie.