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	\| image = "Postman'~~s_Knock"_~~(1962).jpg		\| image = Postman's Knock (1962).jpg
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	\| caption = ~~British quad~~ poster		\| caption = Australian poster
	\| director = [[Robert Lynn (director)\|Robert Lynn]]		\| director = [[w:Robert Lynn (director)\|Robert Lynn]]
	\| producer = [[Ronald Kinnoch]]		\| producer = [[w:Ronald Kinnoch\|Ronald Kinnoch]]
	\| writer = <div style="margin-bottom: 0.3em"> [[John Briley]]<br />[[Jack Trevor Story]]</div>Additional dialogue by [[Spike Milligan]] and [[Ronald Kinnoch]] (as "George Barclay")		\| writer = <div style="margin-bottom: 0.3em"> [[w:John Briley\|John Briley]]<br />[[w:Jack Trevor Story\|Jack Trevor Story]]</div>Additional dialogue by [[Spike Milligan]] and [[w:Ronald Kinnoch\|Ronald Kinnoch]] (as "George Barclay")
	\| based_on = a story by Jack Trevor Story		\| based_on = a story by Jack Trevor Story
	\| narrator =		\| narrator =
	\| starring = [[Spike Milligan]]<br> [[Barbara Shelley]]<br>[[John Wood (English actor)\|John Wood]]		\| starring = [[Spike Milligan]]<br> [[Barbara Shelley]]<br>[[John Wood (English actor)\|John Wood]]
	\| music = [[Ron Goodwin]]		\| music = [[w:Ron Goodwin]]
	\| cinematography = Gerald Moss		\| cinematography = Gerald Moss
	\| editing = [[Geoffrey Foot (film editor)\|Geoffrey Foot]]		\| editing = [[w:Geoffrey Foot (film editor)\|Geoffrey Foot]]
	\| studio = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios		\| studio = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios
	\| distributor = <span style="white-space: nowrap"> [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] {{Smaller\|(UK)}} </span>		\| distributor = <span style="white-space: nowrap"> [[w:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer\|Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] {{Smaller\|(UK)}} </span>
	\| released = {{film date\|df=y\|1962\|2\|22\|UK}}		\| released = {{film date\|df=y\|1962\|2\|22\|UK}}
	\| runtime = 88 min		\| runtime = 88 min
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	'''''Postman's Knock''''' is a 1962 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Robert Lynn (director)\|Robert Lynn]] starring [[Spike Milligan]], [[Barbara Shelley]], [[John Wood (English actor)\|John Wood]] and [[Warren Mitchell]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/46862\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115093820/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/46862\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=2009-01-15\|title=Postman's Knock (1961) - BFI\|work=BFI}}</ref> The screenplay concerns a country [[postman]] who is transferred to London, where he manages to foil a major robbery.		'''''Postman's Knock''''' is a 1962 British [[w:comedy film\|comedy film]] directed by [[w:Robert Lynn (director)\|Robert Lynn]] starring [[Spike Milligan]], [[Barbara Shelley]], [[John Wood (English actor)\|John Wood]] and [[Warren Mitchell]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/46862\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115093820/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/46862\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=2009-01-15\|title=Postman's Knock (1961) - BFI\|work=BFI}}</ref> The screenplay concerns a country [[postman]] who is transferred to London, where he manages to foil a major robbery.

	According to MGM the film made a loss of $31,000.<ref name="Mannix">{{Citation \| title = The Eddie Mannix Ledger \| publisher = Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study \| place = Los Angeles}}.</ref>		According to MGM the film made a loss of $31,000.<ref name="Mannix">{{Citation \| title = The Eddie Mannix Ledger \| publisher = Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study \| place = Los Angeles}}.</ref>

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{{Use British English|date=March 2016}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Postman's Knock
| image = "Postman's_Knock"_(1962).jpg
| image_size =
| caption = British quad poster
| director = [[Robert Lynn (director)|Robert Lynn]]
| producer = [[Ronald Kinnoch]]
| writer = <div style="margin-bottom: 0.3em"> [[John Briley]]<br />[[Jack Trevor Story]]</div>Additional dialogue by [[Spike Milligan]] and [[Ronald Kinnoch]] (as "George Barclay")
| based_on = a story by Jack Trevor Story
| narrator =
| starring = [[Spike Milligan]]<br> [[Barbara Shelley]]<br>[[John Wood (English actor)|John Wood]]
| music = [[Ron Goodwin]]
| cinematography = Gerald Moss
| editing = [[Geoffrey Foot (film editor)|Geoffrey Foot]]
| studio = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios
| distributor = <span style="white-space: nowrap"> [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] {{Smaller|(UK)}} </span>
| released = {{film date|df=y|1962|2|22|UK}}
| runtime = 88 min
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
}}
'''''Postman's Knock''''' is a 1962 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Robert Lynn (director)|Robert Lynn]] starring [[Spike Milligan]], [[Barbara Shelley]], [[John Wood (English actor)|John Wood]] and [[Warren Mitchell]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/46862|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115093820/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/46862|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-01-15|title=Postman's Knock (1961) - BFI|work=BFI}}</ref> The screenplay concerns a country [[postman]] who is transferred to London, where he manages to foil a major robbery.

According to MGM the film made a loss of $31,000.<ref name="Mannix">{{Citation | title = The Eddie Mannix Ledger | publisher = Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study | place = Los Angeles}}.</ref>

==Plot==
Harold Petts is a conscientious village postman who receives a promotion that takes him to London to be trained at London's busiest [[post office]]. However, after his first day in the big city, he is soon in trouble.

In the main sorting office, he succeeds in beating the new mail sorting machine at pigeonholing letters for delivery (the machine blows up in the process). As a result, he is placed safely out of the way in the parcels department, but sorts parcels at such speed that he puts everyone else in the department out of work.

This leads him to a meeting with the staff psychiatrist, and then to Jean, an ambitious art student, and the pair find themselves the main suspects in a [[mail theft]] ring, with the police and post office officials hot on their heels.

==Cast==
* [[Spike Milligan]] - Harold Petts
* [[Barbara Shelley]] - Jean
* [[John Wood (English actor)|John Wood]] - P.C. Woods
* [[Archie Duncan (actor)|Archie Duncan]] - Inspector
* [[Warren Mitchell]] - Rupert
* [[Lance Percival]] - Joe
* [[Arthur Mullard]] - Sam
* [[John Bennett (actor)|John Bennett]] - Pete
* [[Ronald Adam (actor)|Ronald Adam]] - Mr. Fordyce
* [[Miles Malleson]] - Psychiatrist
* [[Wilfrid Lawson (actor)|Wilfrid Lawson]] - Postman
* [[Mario Fabrizi]] - Villager
* [[Bob Todd]] - District Superintendent

==Critical reception==
''Britmovie'' noted "several promising satirical opportunities are sadly lost beneath a welter of frenetic slapstick";<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britmovie.co.uk/films/Postmans-Knock_1961/|title=Postmans Knock 1961 - Britmovie - Home of British Films|work=britmovie.co.uk|access-date=14 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141215004807/http://www.britmovie.co.uk/films/Postmans-Knock_1961/|archive-date=15 December 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> while [[David McGillivray (producer/screenwriter)|David McGillivray]] described the film in the ''[[Radio Times]]'' as "one of two comedies (the other is ''[[Invasion Quartet]]'') created for Spike Milligan by John Briley and Jack Trevor Story, talented writers not noted for their eccentric humour (Briley went on to script ''[[Gandhi (film)|Gandhi]]'' and ''[[Cry Freedom]]''). Consequently the brilliant [[The Goon Show|Goon]] flounders in the conventional, happy-go-lucky tale of a village postman who is transferred to London."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/film/cvmjc/postmans-knock|title=Postman's Knock|author=David McGillivray|work=RadioTimes}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0056363}}
* {{amg movie|106434}}
* {{tcmdb title|id=86993}}

[[Category:1962 films]]
[[Category:1962 comedy films]]
[[Category:1960s English-language films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Robert Lynn]]
[[Category:British comedy films]]
[[Category:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films]]
[[Category:Films scored by Ron Goodwin]]
[[Category:British black-and-white films]]
[[Category:Films set in London]]
[[Category:Films with screenplays by John Briley]]
[[Category:Films about postal systems]]
[[Category:Films shot at MGM-British Studios]]
[[Category:1960s British films]]