Meet Mr. Lucifer (1953)

• Director
  • Anthony Pelissier
• Writers
  • Arnold Ridley(play "Beggar My Neighbour")
  • Monja Danischewsky(screenplay)
  • Peter Myers(additional dialogue)
• Stars
  • Stanley Holloway
  • Peggy Cummins
  • Jack Watling

  Though Meet Mr. Lucifer reads rather better than it plays, the film is still good for a few healthy laughs. Stanley Holloway plays Hollingsworth, an actor who is playing Lucifer in a stage production. While being hoisted through a trap door, Hollingsworth is knocked cold. While unconscious, he is replaced by the real Lucifer. Seeking about for a new form of deviltry to inflict upon the public, Lucifer comes up with the most hellish device of all: Television! The rest of the film details the effects that the boob tube has on otherwise normal, rational British citizens (there's even time for a swipe at 3D movies). Based on a play by Arnold Ridley, Meet Mr. Lucifer is enhanced by an all-star cast, including Peggy Cummins, Kay Kendall and Ernst Thesiger.