Politicians and actors meet on the cricket field - Richard Attenborough is injured.
East Grinstead.
SCU. Politicians team posing for press. CU. John Mills and Richard (Dickie) Attenborough. SCU. Sheila Sim (Mrs Attenborough) watching play with Mrs John Mills. GV. Play. Lord Hawke and Bromley Davenport. Mills bowls to Davenport who hits ball goes well out to field. SV. Richard Hearne runs to catch it and misses. GV. Players finish their run. CU. Pan with Leo Genn as he bowls to Bromley Davenport. SCU. Davenport at wicket he hits ball. SV. Richard Attenborough running to catch it. SCU. Crowd watching. SV. Crowd including John Mills, Rex Harrison, Mr Pastry umpires etc., around Attenborough who is lying on the ground. GV. Crowd. SCU. Pan with Attenborough who is lying on the ground. GV. Crowd. SCU. Pan with Attenborough being carried away on stretcher by Sir Archibald McIndoe. SCU. Harold Macmillan batting, he strikes a ball and commences to run. SCU. Rex Harrison fielding ball and throwing it back. SV. Denis Compton who bowls to Sir David Maxwell Fyfe (Lord Kilmuir) and gets him out. Lord Kilmuir starts to walk off. SV. Crowd. SCU. Richard Hearne (Mr Pastry) banging pitch with bat. He turns and attempts to strike wicket keeper. SV. Major Gwilym Lloyd George bowling to Hearne who hits the ball but it doesn't go very far. SCU. Crowd watching. SV. Player bowls to John Mills who attempts a hit but the ball goes past to wicket keeper. SCU. Macmillan and Kilmuir watching from deck chairs. SCU. Mills at wicket, ball knocks stumps flying and Mills walks off. SCU. People with newspapers over their hands because it is now raining. GV. Players leaving field - end of match.
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Unknown user says
"Attenborough being carried away on a stretcher" - amongst those helping is the famous plastic surgeon Sir Archibald McIndoe.
Line 10/11 "Harold Macmillan fielding" - actually he's batting.
"Major Lloyd George" is Major Gwilym Lloyd George, son of the former Prime Minister David Lloyd George.
Unknown user says
Opinions on their playing anyone?