Release Date: 1936-04-30
Overview: The film begins in a BBC studio with the 100th edition of "In Town Tonight". Flotsam and Jetsom open with a "topical number". Then there is an interview with a distinguished actor, which dissolves into a performance of one of his famous melodramas about a wicked moneylender etc.
Rating: 5.4 / 10
Tod Slaughter
as Stephen Hawke
Marjorie Taylor
as Julia Hawke
D.J. Williams
as Joshua Trimble
Eric Portman
as Matthew Trimble
Graham Soutten
as Nathaniel
Paul White - Writer
Frederick Hayward - Screenplay
Jack Celestin - Writer
H.F. Maltby - Writer
Ronald Neame - Cinematography
Look out for a very young Eric Portman in this cheery cannibalisation of quite a few stories and characters. Nothing at all original here, but it's fun to watch Tod Slaughter being, well, himself....