Spring Handicap
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Spring Handicap | |
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Directed by | Herbert Brenon |
Written by | Ernest E. Bryan (play) William Freshman Elizabeth Meehan |
Produced by | Walter C. Mycroft |
Starring | Will Fyffe Maire O'Neill Billy Milton Aileen Marson |
Cinematography | Otto Kanturek |
Edited by | Lionel Tomlinson |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Associated British Film Distributors |
Release date |
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Running time | 69 minutes[2] |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Spring Handicap is a 1937 British comedy film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Will Fyffe, Maire O'Neill and Billy Milton.[3] The film was made by the Associated British Picture Corporation at their Elstree Studios and based on the play The Last Coupon by Ernest E. Bryan.
Premise
A wife tries to prevent her husband, a miner, from gambling away the money he receives as an inheritance.
Cast
- Will Fyffe as Jack Clayton
- Maire O'Neill as Meg Clayton
- Billy Milton as Len Redpath
- Aileen Marson as Barbara Clayton
- Frank Pettingell as Scullion
- David Burns as Amos
- Hugh Miller as Selby
- Beatrice Varley as Mrs. Tulip
- Wilfrid Hyde White as Hawkins (uncredited)
References
- ^ Low p.390
- ^ Chibnall p.297
- ^ "Spring Handicap". BFI. Archived from the original on 11 July 2012.
Bibliography
- Chibnall, Steve. Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' film. British Film Institute, 2007.
- Low, Rachael. History of the British Film: Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985 .
- Warren, Patricia. Elstree: The British Hollywood. Columbus Books, 1998.
External links
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- 1937 comedy films
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- Films shot at Associated British Studios
- Films directed by Herbert Brenon
- British films based on plays
- British black-and-white films
- 1930s British films
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