Almost a Honeymoon (Original title)
Date: 15 June 1931 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Monty Banks
Synopsis: Basil Dibley is in sore financial straits, and has given up his Mayfair flat. He accepts a position in Penang, one of the conditions of acceptance is that he must be married. His flat is taken by Rosalie Quiter, a pretty girl about to be married, and moves into it the afternoon that Basil is to go out. Returning home that night, or rather early in the morning, considerably elated, Basil tumbles into his bed, the other twin bed being occupied by the lady. Later the two young people discover the compromising circumstances under which they spent the night, which embarrasment is intensified when Cuthbert, the prospective bridegroom calls to make final arrangements for the wedding. But Rosalie and Basil have fallen in love and Rosalie refused to go further with her marriage to Cuthbert. It happens that Basil's Uncle in New Zealand dies at a very convenient time, leaving Basil a large estate and title which he promptly asks Rosalie to share.
Genre: Comedy
Subject: Stage farce
Releases
Date: 1930Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 100 mins Length: 9016 FeetLanguage: English
Date: 15 June 1931 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Monty Banks
Synopsis: Basil Dibley is in sore financial straits, and has given up his Mayfair flat. He accepts a position in Penang, one of the conditions of acceptance is that he must be married. His flat is taken by Rosalie Quiter, a pretty girl about to be married, and moves into it the afternoon that Basil is to go out. Returning home that night, or rather early in the morning, considerably elated, Basil tumbles into his bed, the other twin bed being occupied by the lady. Later the two young people discover the compromising circumstances under which they spent the night, which embarrasment is intensified when Cuthbert, the prospective bridegroom calls to make final arrangements for the wedding. But Rosalie and Basil have fallen in love and Rosalie refused to go further with her marriage to Cuthbert. It happens that Basil's Uncle in New Zealand dies at a very convenient time, leaving Basil a large estate and title which he promptly asks Rosalie to share.
Genre: Comedy
Subject: Stage farce
Releases
Date: 1930Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 100 mins Length: 9016 FeetLanguage: English
Credits
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Presents: British International Pictures, Distributed by: Wardour Films, Asst. Director: Marjorie Gaffney, Adaptation and Scenario by: Walter Mycroft, Valentine, [Based on the Play] By: Walter Ellis, Photography by: John J. Cox, [Film Edited] Under the Supervision of: Emile De Ruelle, Film Edited by: A.C. Hammond, Sound Recordist: A.S. Ross, Sound System: RCA Photophone, Made and Recorded at: Elstree Studios
Cast
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Clifford Mollison (Basil Dibley), Donald Calthrop (Charles), Dodo Watts (Rosalie Quilter), Lamont Dickson (Cuthbert de Grey), C.M. Halland (Sir James Jephson), Edward Thane (Mr Clutterbuck), Pamela Carme (Margaret Brent), Winifred Hall (Lavinia Pepper), Monty Banks ([pedestrian outside registrar's])