Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel, the bookseller who works at Marks & Co., 84 Charing Cross Road.
- london
- england
- bookshop
- based on play or musical
- based on memoir or autobiography
- correspondence
- 1950s
- 1960s
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Maurice Denham — George Martin
- Eleanor David — Cecily Farr
- Mercedes Ruehl — Kay
- Daniel Gerroll — Brian
- Wendy Morgan — Megan Wells
- Ian McNeice — Bill Humphries
- Connie Booth — The Lady from Delaware
- J. Smith-Cameron — Ginny
- Tom Isbell — Ed
- Anne Dyson — Mrs. Boulton
- Ronn Carroll — Businessman on Plane
- Directed
- David Hugh Jones
- Written
- James Roose-Evans, Hugh Whitemore
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 232 ratings
- Studio
- Brooksfilms, Columbia Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
