Miss MacTaggart Won’t Lie Down (1966)

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Country: UK
Genres: Comedy, Short
Release:
Director: Francis Searle
Writers: Elwyn Ambrose
Language: English
Stars: Barbara Mullen , Eric Woodburn , Andrew Downie , Jack Lambert , Tim Barrett , Patrick Jordan , Frank Sieman , Katharine Page , Laurie Leigh , Pat Mason
Runtime: 28 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Miss MacTaggart Won't Lie Down (India) , Miss MacTaggart Won't Lie Down (United Kingdom) , Miss MacTaggart Won't Lie Down
Plot: Everyone thinks Jeannie MacTaggart is a ghost when she arrives back in town after a visit to Glasgow. She is supposed to be dead. But it was her twin sister, come to visit who has died. So she has to go about proving who she is. They have buried a "spitting image" in the local graveyard. Yes, it was her twin sister who was buried. Changing the headstone should be easy. Changing the death record might not be quite so easy. Once a death certificate is signed and entries are made in the records, there is no way on earth to change it. And since it has been recorded all the way to London, it just can't be changed. So, as far as the law is concerned, she is not alive. What to do. Now that she is "dead" she figures out she can break the law at will because she is already dead. So her crime spree commences. Since she is "dead" she cannot draw money out of her closed account. Breaking a window at the police station. Bagpipes at midnight? Didn't work. Steal a car? Steal the royal tiara when the princess comes to town? Nothing is working to get her arrested and made into a real person, once again. She goes to court but gets no help. Case dismissed. So she writes everybody all the way up to the queen without success. So go to the newspapers and report she has left a bomb in the House of Parliament, London. Simultaneously, talk to the PM. A promise to fix the situation. Turns out the bomb is a haggis. Her plight is left up in the air but we hope this fine and gentle lady will be fully restored and let everyone else live happily ever after as well as herself.
IMDB:tt0060702