It's Hard to Be Good

It's Hard to Be Good
Directed by	Jeffrey Dell
Written by	Jeffrey Dell
Produced by	John W. Gossage
Starring	Jimmy Hanley Anne Crawford Raymond Huntley
Cinematography	Laurie Friedman
Edited by	Helga Cranston
Music by	Antony Hopkins
Production company	Two Cities Films
Distributed by	General Film Distributors
Release date	10 November 1948
Running time	93 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

It's Hard to Be Good is a 1948 British comedy film directed by Jeffrey Dell and starring Jimmy Hanley, Anne Crawford and Raymond Huntley. In the film, an ex-army officer and do-gooder finds his attempts to improve the world leads invariably to disasters.

It was shot at Denham Studios. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alex Vetchinsky.

Cast

• Anne Crawford as Mary Leighton
• Jimmy Hanley as Captain James Gladstone Wedge VC
• Raymond Huntley as Williams
• Edward Rigby as Parkinson
• Elwyn Brook-Jones as Budibent
• Joyce Carey as Alice Beckett
• Geoffrey Keen as Sergeant Todd
• Lana Morris as Daphne
• David Horne as Edward Beckett
• Muriel Aked as Ellen Beckett
• Cyril Smith as Fred Hobson
• Leslie Weston as Buck
• Alison Leggatt as Mrs Buck
• Robert Adair as Committee Man
• Francis De Wolff as Fighting Neighbour
• Judith Furse as Sister Taylor
• Colin Gordon as Neighbour with Baby
• Joan Hickson as Mending Woman
• Sam Kydd as Husband
• Leslie Perrins as Major Gordon
• Wensley Pithey as Vicar
• Walter Rilla as Kamerovsky
• John Salew as Committee Man
• Marianne Stone as Clerk in Newspaper Office
• Merle Tottenham as Mrs. Hobson
• Ian Wilson as Fighting Neighbour

Bibliography

• Gillett, Philip. Forgotten British Film: Value and the Ephemeral in Postwar Cinema. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

External links

• It's Hard to Be Good at IMDb