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29, Acacia Avenue (Original title)The Facts of Love (Alternative title)Twenty-nine Acacia Avenue (Help search title)
Date: 23 July 1945 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Henry Cass

Synopsis: Mr and Mrs Robinson set off on a Mediterranean cruise leaving their almost adult children behind. On their way to the dock, they decide to spend their holiday in Bognor, as they do every year. Returning home early, they are shocked to find their daughter in the house with her fiance and their son and maid also in the house nursing their broken hearts.

Genre:
Comedy
Releases
Date: 1945Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 83 mins Length: 7511 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (39)
[Production Company]: Boca Productions, Columbia (British) Productions, Produced by/Presents: Sydney Box, Associate Producer: Compton Bennett, Production Manager: Knox Laing, [Location Manager]: Mickey Delamar, Assistant Director: Bert Dorsett, [Assistant Director (2nd)]: Billy Asher, [Assistant Director (3rd)]: R. Millar, [Continuity]: M. Norton, Screenplay by: Muriel Box, Sydney Box, [Story] By: Denis Constanduros, Mabel Constanduros, Photographed by: Ernest Palmer, Nigel Huke, Camera Operator: A. Mason, [Camera Assistant]: Ken Smith, R. Deall, [Stills]: Eric Gray, [Supervising Editor]: Compton Bennett, Editor: Julian Wintle, [Assistant Editor (1st)]: Ena Davidson, [Assistant Editor (2nd)]: David Folding, Art Director: James Carter, [Assistant Art Director]: Noel Waterfield, Costumes: Dorothy Sinclair, Make-up: Nell Taylor, [Processing Laboratory]: Kay Film Laboratories, Music Composed by: Clifton Parker, Music Played by: The London Symphony Orchestra, [LSO] Conducted by: Muir Mathieson, [Sound] Recording: George Burgess, L. Clark, [Boom Operator]: Derek Tate, [Boom Assistant]: Peter McManus, Sound System: RCA, Produced at: Riverside Studios
Cast (12)
Gordon Harker (Mr Charles Robinson), Carla Lehmann (Fay Jones), Jimmy Hanley (Peter Robinson), Betty Balfour (Mrs Robinson), Henry Kendall (Mr Wilson), Dinah Sheridan (Pepper), Hubert Gregg (Michael), Megs Jenkins (Shirley), Jill Evans (Joan Robinson), Noele Gordon (Mrs Wilson), Guy Middleton (Gerald Jones), Aubrey Mallalieu (Martin, the butler)