The Smart Aleck

The Smart Aleck
Directed by	John Guillermin
Written by	Alec Coppel
Based on	play Mr Smart Guy by Alec Coppel
Starring	Peter Reynolds
Cinematography	Ray Elton
Edited by	Robert J. Hill
Release dates	March 1951
Running time	58 min.
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The Smart Aleck is a 1951 British crime film directed by John Guillermin.

Plot

A young man plans successfully to kill his rich uncle. He gets an alibi by having the chief commissioner of police living in the same building as his chief witness.

Cast

Peter Reynolds as Alec Albion
Mercy Haystead as Judith
Leslie Dwyer as Gossage
Edward Lexy as Inspector
Kynaston Reeves as Uncle Edward
Charles Hawtrey as Farr
David Hurst as Poppi
David Keir as Mr. Guppy
Annette D. Simmonds as Sylvia
Frederick Morant as Edward Hall
Vernon Smythe as Judge
Peter Bull as Prosecuting Counsel
Basil Dignam as Defending Counsel

Original play

Mr Smart Guy
Written by	Alec Coppel
Date premiered	10 May 1941
Place premiered	Minerva Theatre, Sydney
Original language	English
Genre	thriller

The script was based on a play Mr Smart Guy by Alec Coppel, who wrote it in England at the beginning of the war.^[1] It had its world premiere in Sydney in 1941.^[2] Coppel also adapted it for radio that year.^[3]

The play was produced in England in 1947.^[4]

References

↑ "In the Theatres.". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 8 May 1941. p. 22. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
↑ ""MR. SMART GUY.".". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 12 May 1941. p. 4. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
↑ "BROADCASTING.". The Argus. Melbourne: National Library of Australia. 31 May 1941. p. 2. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
↑ "Sydney's Talking About—.". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 23 January 1947. p. 14. Retrieved 4 September 2012.

External links

The Smart Aleck at the Internet Movie Database
The Smart Aleck at BFI

Films directed by John Guillermin

High Jinks in Society (1949)
Torment (1950)
The Smart Aleck (1951)
Two on the Tiles (1951)
Four Days (1951)
Song of Paris (1952)
Miss Robin Hood (1952)
Operation Diplomat (1953)
Strange Stories (1953)
Adventure in the Hopfields (1954)
The Crowded Day (1954)
Tormenta (1955)
Thunderstorm (1956)
Town on Trial (1957)
The Whole Truth (1958)
I Was Monty's Double (1958)
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (1959)
The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960)
Never Let Go (1960)
Waltz of the Toreadors (1962)
Tarzan Goes to India (1962)
Guns at Batasi (1964)
Rapture (1965)
The Blue Max (1966)
P.J. (1968)
House of Cards (1968)
The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
El Condor (1970)
Skyjacked (1972)
Shaft in Africa (1973)
The Towering Inferno (1974)
King Kong (1976)
Death on the Nile (1978)
Crossover (1980)
Sheena (1984)
King Kong Lives (1986)
The Tracker (1988)

Works by Alec Coppel

Plays	Short Circuit (1935) The Stars Foretell (1936) I Killed the Count (1937) Let’s Pretend (1938) Believe it Or Not (1940) Mr Smart Guy (1941) My Friend Lester (1947) A Man About a Dog (1949) The Genius and the Goddess (1957) The Joshua Tree (1958) Oh, Captain! (1958) The Gazebo (1959) Viva Le Difference (1960) The Captain's Paradise (1961) Not in My Bed, You Don’t (1968) Cadenza (1977)

Novels	I Killed the Count (1938) A Man About a Dog (1947) Mr Denning Drives North (1950) The Last Parable (1953) Moment to Moment (1966) Tweedledum and Tweedledee (1967)

Screenplays	Over the Moon (1939) I Killed the Count (1939) Just like a Woman (1939) Smithy (1946) The Brass Monkey (1948) Woman Hater (1948) Obsession (1949) Two on the Tiles (1950) The Smart Aleck (1951) No Highway in the Sky (1951) Mr. Denning Drives North (1952) The Captain's Paradise (1953) Hell Below Zero (1954) The Black Knight (1954) To Catch a Thief (1954) Appointment with a Shadow (1957) Vertigo (1958) The Gazebo (1959) Swordsman of Siena (1962) Moment to Moment (1966) The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (1968) The Statue (1971) A Kiss is Just a Kiss (1971)

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