''A Man's Affair'' is a 1949 British

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directed by

Jay Lewis Jay Gardner Lewis (1914 – June 4, 1969) was a film director, a film producer and writer born in Warwickshire, England. In 1940, he founded the documentary film company Verity Films with Sydney Box. Filmography Director *''A Home of Your O ...

and starring Hamish Menzies, Cliff Gordon and

Diana Decker Diana Decker (born Isabella Charlotte Diana Decker, 9 January 1925 – 4 January 2019), was a British/American actress, singer, and television personality, who was popular from the 1940s to the early 1960s. Early life Decker was born to an Americ ...

. It was made as a

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, and released by

Exclusive Films Hammer Film Productions Ltd. is a British film production company based in London. Founded in 1934, the company is best known for a series of Gothic fiction, Gothic horror and fantasy films made from the mid-1950s until the 1970s. Many of thes ...

. Both Lewis and most of his crew were former members of the

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.Chibnall & MacFarlane p.36 The film portrays a pair of

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who meets some holidaying girls in the

Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...

resort of

Ramsgate Ramsgate is a seaside resort, seaside town in the district of Thanet District, Thanet in east Kent, England. It was one of the great English seaside towns of the 19th century. In 2001 it had a population of about 40,000. In 2011, according to t ...

Cast

* Hamish Menzies as Jim * Cliff Gordon as Ted *

as Sheila *

Joan Dowling Joan Dowling (6 January 1928 – 31 March 1954) was a British character actress. Life and career Dowling was the illegitimate daughter of Vera Dowling. A piece in ''The Laindon and District Times'', on 23 June 2015, written by her cousin Joh ...

as Joan *

Wallas Eaton Wallas Eaton (18 February 1917 – 3 November 1995), sometimes credited as Wallace Eaton or Wallis Eaton, was an English film, radio, television and theatre actor. He is perhaps best remembered for his voice roles between 1949 and 1960 in t ...

as Leonard * Joyce Linden as Phyl *

Toke Townley John Antony Townley (6 November 1912 – 27 September 1984), known professionally as Toke Townley, was an English actor. Biography Townley was born on 6 November 1912 at Great Dunmow, Essex; his father was a vicar. His first name, "John", was c ...

as Mike *

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as Sidney * D.L. Davies as Evan Davies * Malcolm Thomas as Joe Davies *

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as George * Farnham Baxter as Herbert *

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as Curly * Peter Lewis as Ernie *

Pat Nye Patricia Dorothy Nye, OBE (11 February 1908 – 11 April 1994) was an English actress-manager.1949 films British comedy films 1949 comedy films Films directed by Jay Lewis Films set in Kent British black-and-white films 1940s English-language films 1940s British films {{1940s-UK-comedy-film-stub