A Hole Lot of Trouble

A Hole Lot of Trouble
Opening titles
Directed byFrancis Searle
Written byIan Flintoff
Story byFrancis Searle
Produced byFrancis Searle
Robert Gallico
John Hogarth
StarringArthur Lowe
Tim Barrett
Victor Maddern
Bill Maynard
CinematographyTerry Maher
Edited byPeter Mayhew
Music byPeter Jeffries
Production
company
Chairene Productions
Distributed byMonarch Film Corporation (UK)
Release date
  • 31 January 1971 (1971-01-31) (UK)
Running time
27 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

A Hole Lot of Trouble is a 1971 British short comedy film directed by Francis Searle and starring Arthur Lowe, Victor Maddern and Bill Maynard. It was written by Ian Flintoff. It charts the efforts of a group of workmen trying to dig a hole.

A Hole Lot of Trouble is one of a series of 30-minute films directed by Searle in the "Screen Miniatures" series, which he made between 1966 and 1972. Others in the series are Miss MacTaggart Won’t Lie Down (1966), The Pale Faced Girl (1968), Talk of the Devil (1968), Gold Is Where You Find It (1968), It All Goes to Show (1969) and A Couple of Beauties (1972).