Spring Handicap

1937 film

  • May 1937 (1937-05)[1]
Running time
69 minutes[2]CountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglish

Spring Handicap is a 1937 British comedy film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Will Fyffe, Maire O'Neill and Billy Milton.[3] The film was made by the Associated British Picture Corporation at their Elstree Studios and based on the play The Last Coupon by Ernest E. Bryan.

Premise

A wife tries to prevent her husband, a miner, from gambling away the money he receives as an inheritance.

Cast

  • Will Fyffe as Jack Clayton
  • Maire O'Neill as Meg Clayton
  • Billy Milton as Len Redpath
  • Aileen Marson as Barbara Clayton
  • Frank Pettingell as Scullion
  • David Burns as Amos
  • Hugh Miller as Selby
  • Beatrice Varley as Mrs. Tulip
  • Wilfrid Hyde White as Hawkins (uncredited)

References

  1. ^ Low p.390
  2. ^ Chibnall p.297
  3. ^ "Spring Handicap". BFI. Archived from the original on 11 July 2012.

Bibliography

  • Chibnall, Steve. Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' film. British Film Institute, 2007.
  • Low, Rachael. History of the British Film: Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985 .
  • Warren, Patricia. Elstree: The British Hollywood. Columbus Books, 1998.
  • Spring Handicap at IMDb
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