Up for the Derby
Appearance
Up for the Derby | |
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Directed by | Maclean Rogers |
Written by | Bert Lee Jack Marks R. P. Weston |
Produced by | Herbert Wilcox |
Starring | Sydney Howard Dorothy Bartlam Tom Helmore |
Cinematography | Cyril Bristow Freddie Young |
Edited by | Cecil H. Williamson |
Music by | Lew Stone Harris Weston |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Woolf & Freedman Film Service |
Release date |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Up for the Derby is a 1933 British sports comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Sydney Howard, Dorothy Bartlam and Tom Helmore. The screenplay concerns a tramp who unexpectedly gains money.
It was made at British and Dominion Elstree Studios.[1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Frederick Pusey.
Plot
[edit]A tramp unexpectedly comes into some money, and buys a racehorse which goes on to win The Derby.
Cast
[edit]- Sydney Howard as Joe Burton
- Dorothy Bartlam as Dorothy Gordon
- Mark Daly as Jerry Higgs
- Tom Helmore as Ronnie Gordon
- Frederick Lloyd as Major Edwards
- Franklyn Bellamy as Palmer
- Jane Carr as Singer
- Frank Harvey as George Moberley
- Lew Stone and his band as Themselves
References
[edit]- ^ Wood p.76
Bibliography
[edit]- Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
- Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
External links
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Categories:
- 1933 films
- British horse racing films
- Films directed by Maclean Rogers
- Films set in England
- British black-and-white films
- British and Dominions Studios films
- Films shot at Imperial Studios, Elstree
- 1930s sports comedy films
- British sports comedy films
- 1933 comedy films
- 1930s British films
- 1930s British comedy film stubs
- Sports film stubs