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]
| Me and Marlborough | |
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 Opening title card | |
| Directed by | Victor Saville |
| Written by | |
| Produced by | Michael Balcon |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | |
| Edited by | Michael Gordon |
| Music by | |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Gaumont British Distributors |
Release date |
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Running time | 84 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Plot
editSergeant Cummings searches Kit Ross's pub for a deserter drummer boy. When he finds the lad, Kit leads the pub patrons in attacking the sergeant's men, and the young man gets away, for which she is put in stocks. While there, she plans her impending wedding to Dick Welch. However, Cummings gets his revenge. On the night of the wedding, he tricks Dick into taking a shilling, which means he has enlisted in the army. She watches as a ship takes him to the fighting. Undaunted, she disguises herself as a man named Simon and joins up with the Duke of Marlborough's army in Flanders to find her missing husband.[2][3]
Cast
edit- Cicely Courtneidge as Kit Ross
- Tom Walls as Duke of Marlborough
- Barry MacKay as Dick Welch
- Alfred Drayton as Sergeant Bull
- Iris Ashley as Josephine
- Ivor McLaren as Sergeant Cummings
- Gibb McLaughlin as Old soldier
- Peter Gawthorne as Staff Colonel
- Cecil Parker as Colonel of the Greys
- George Merritt as Harley
- Cyril Smith as Corporal Fox
- Mickey Brantford as Ensign Coke
- Randle Ayrton as King Louis XIV
- Henry Oscar as Goultier
- Percy Walsh as Naylor
- Donald Calthrop as Drunken Yokel
Reception
editWriting for The Spectator, Graham Greene criticised 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]
References
edit- ^ "Me and Marlborough (1935)". IMDb.com. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
- ^ "BFI | Film & TV Database | ME AND MARLBOROUGH (1935)". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. 16 April 2009. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
- ^ "Me and Marlborough | Britmovie | Home of British Films". Britmovie. Archived from the original on 27 November 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
- ^ Greene, Graham (6 September 1935). "Dood Wasser/Me and Marlborough". The Spectator. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. p. 19. ISBN 0192812866.)
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