Me and Marlborough
Me and Marlborough | |
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Directed by | Victor Saville |
Produced by | Michael Balcon |
Written by | Marjorie Gaffney Ian Hay W.P. Lipscomb Reginald Pound |
Starring | Cicely Courtneidge Tom Walls Barry McKay Petr Gawthorne Henry Oscar Cecil Parker |
Music by | Louis Levy |
Cinematography | Curt Courant Charles Van Enger |
Edited by | Michael Gordon |
Distributed by | Gainsborough Pictures Gaumont |
Release dates
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1935 |
Running time
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84 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Me and Marlborough is a 1935 British comedy film, directed by Victor Saville, and starring Cicely Courtneidge, Tom Walls, Barry MacKay, Peter Gawthorne, Henry Oscar and Cecil Parker.[1]
Contents
Plot summary
England, 1710. A woman disguises herself as a man and joins up with the Duke of Marlborough's army in Flanders to find her missing husband.[2][3]
Cast
- Cicely Courtneidge - Kit Ross
- Tom Walls - Duke of Marlborough
- Barry MacKay - Dick Welch
- Alfred Drayton - Sergeant Bull
- Iris Ashley - Josephine
- Ivor McLaren - Sergeant Cummings
- Gibb McLaughlin - Old soldier
- Peter Gawthorne - Staff Colonel
- Cecil Parker - Colonel of the Greys
- George Merritt - Harley
- Mickey Brantford - Ensign Coke
- Randle Ayrton - Louis XIV
- Henry Oscar - Goultier
- Cyril Smith as Corporal Fox
Reception
Writing for The Spectator, Graham Greene criticized the theatrical qualities of Courtneidge's performance, claiming that "I found myself too embarrassed by Miss Courtneidge's facial contortions to appreciate their share. Miss Courtneidge is used to throwing her effects to the back row of a theatre gallery, and the camera is not kind to her exaggerations".[4]
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