On 2nd November 1952, the main cast of a new Rank Organisation comedy joined the start of the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run.
The management at Pinewood was unenthusiastic about the film's prospects. None of the four leads was well known.
Who would pay 1/9d to see a film about the owners of two elderly vehicles?
The inspiration for Genevieve was from the expatriate American writer William Rose, who witnessed the 1950 Brighton Veteran Car Run pass his Sussex cottage.
The South African-born director Henry Cornelius
