The Fast Lady (1963)

Director
Ken Annakin

Main cast
Julie Christie; James Robertson Justice; Leslie Phillips; Stanley Baxter; Kathleen Harrison

Genres
Comedy

Description
A Scottish civil servant (Stanley Baxter) must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's (Julie Christie) tycoon father (James Robertson Justice).


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