Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Few actors could be better suited than David Tomlinson for the role of a doltish viscount unintentionally entangled in politics and this brisk 1949 satire was a huge success both for the accomplished character player and his similarly gifted co-stars Cecil Parker and eighty-year-old film veteran AE Matthews The Chiltern Hundreds is directed by John Paddy Carstairs - whose later career encompassed a string of box-office hits with the likes of Frankie Howerd Norman Wisdom and Tommy Steele - and is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements Young Viscount Tony Pym wangles National Service leave on the pretext of standing as a Tory candidate for a local seat held by his family for generations The request is a ruse to enable Pym to marry his wealthy American fiancée while she&39;s still in England but his masterplan backfires when he finds himself swept into an election campaign and beaten by Labour&39;s Mr Cleghorn - who is then made a peer In an attempt to save face Pym decides to stand again - as a socialist It all proves too much for the Pyms&39; loyal true-blue butler Mr Beecham