You Must Be Joking! (1965 film)

You Must Be Joking!
Theatrical release poster
Directed byMichael Winner
Screenplay byAlan Hackney
Jan Read
from a story by Michael Winner
Produced byCharles H. Schneer
StarringMichael Callan
Lionel Jeffries
Denholm Elliott
CinematographyGeoffrey Unsworth
Edited byBernard Gribble
Music byLaurie Johnson
Production
company
Ameran
Distributed byColumbia Pictures Corporation (UK)
Release date
  • 3 August 1965 (1965-08-03) (London)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

You Must Be Joking! is a 1965 black and white British comedy film directed by Michael Winner and starring Michael Callan, Lionel Jeffries, and Denholm Elliott.[1] It was written by Alan Hackney, from a story by Winner.

The format of the film, four people each doing six tasks linked to a scavenger hunt, allows for 24 otherwise somewhat unconnected comedy vignettes, which jointly create the story line. The items (purportedly representing British identity) include flying ducks for the wall, an English rose, the Spirit of Ecstasy from a Rolls-Royce car, an electric hare from a greyhound race and the Lutine Bell.

  1. ^ "You Must Be Joking!". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 30 December 2023.