MISS MACTAGGART WON'T LIE DOWN is a short comic effort from prolific director Francis Searle, here working at the tail-end of his career. It's a genteel effort with a Scottish setting about a kindly old woman who arrives in her home town to find that she's technically dead (her twin sister died and was mistaken for her).
The old lady becomes increasingly frustrated by the lack of recognition and turns to crime to regain her identity. Although the running time is just 30 minutes, there's a lot of incident packed into the length of this short feature and it's quite amusing too. The cast are obviously enjoying themselves and who are we to criticise them? This picture tends to be a lot funnier than Searle's other short efforts from the period.
The old lady becomes increasingly frustrated by the lack of recognition and turns to crime to regain her identity. Although the running time is just 30 minutes, there's a lot of incident packed into the length of this short feature and it's quite amusing too. The cast are obviously enjoying themselves and who are we to criticise them? This picture tends to be a lot funnier than Searle's other short efforts from the period.