Vintage Wine
1935 British film
- 20 June 1935 (1935-06-20)
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Vintage Wine is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Seymour Hicks, Claire Luce, Eva Moore and Judy Gunn.[1] The film was made at Julius Hagen's Twickenham Studios, but was released by Gaumont British Distributors which was the largest British film company at the time. The film was loosely based on a German play by Alexander Engels, which also formed the basis of the 1934 West End comedy by Ashley Dukes and Seymour Hicks.[2]
Synopsis
The members of the Popinot family of French champagne tycoons suspect that the widowed head of the family Charles Popinot is keeping a mistress in Rome and generally living a wild life. Unbeknownst to them he has happily re-married and had a son with a much younger woman. She believes he is twenty years younger than he really is and is shocked when his relatives including his mother, grown-up sons and granddaughter arrive in Italy.
Cast
- Seymour Hicks as Charles Popinot
- Claire Luce as Nina Popinot
- Eva Moore as Josephine Popinot
- Judy Gunn as Blanche Popinot
- Miles Malleson as Henri Popinot
- Kynaston Reeves as Benedict Popinot
- Michael Shepley as Richard Emsley
- A. Bromley Davenport as Pierre
- Amy Brandon Thomas as Minor role
- Elisabeth Croft as Minor role
- Kathleen Weston as Family Member.[3]
References
- ^ Vintage Wine at British Film Institute
- ^ "Production of Vintage Wine | Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
- ^ Hayward, Anthony (18 January 2003). "Actress Obituaries-Elisabeth Croft". London: The Telegraph. Retrieved 17 July 2011.[dead link]
Bibliography
- Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
- Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927–1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
External links
- Vintage Wine at IMDb
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Films directed by Henry Edwards
- A Welsh Singer (1915)
- Doorsteps (1916)
- East Is East (1916)
- Merely Mrs. Stubbs (1917)
- If Thou Wert Blind (1917)
- Broken Threads (1917)
- The Failure (1917)
- What's the Use of Grumbling (1918)
- Towards the Light (1918)
- The Poet's Windfall (1918)
- The Hanging Judge (1918)
- The City of Beautiful Nonsense (1919)
- Possession (1919)
- His Dearest Possession (1919)
- The Kinsman (1919)
- The Amazing Quest of Mr. Ernest Bliss (1920)
- John Forrest Finds Himself (1920)
- Aylwin (1920)
- A Temporary Vagabond (1920)
- Tit for Tat (1921)
- The Lunatic at Large (1921)
- The Bargain (1921)
- Simple Simon (1922)
- Lily of the Alley (1923)
- Boden's Boy (1923)
- The Naked Man (1923)
- The World of Wonderful Reality (1924)
- Owd Bob (1924)
- King of the Castle (1925)
- A Girl of London (1925)
- The Island of Despair (1926)
- One Colombo Night (1926)
- The Girl in the Night (1931)
- Stranglehold (1931)
- Brother Alfred (1932)
- The Flag Lieutenant (1932)
- The Barton Mystery (1932)
- General John Regan (1933)
- Discord (1933)
- One Precious Year (1933)
- Lord of the Manor (1933)
- Anne One Hundred (1933)
- Purse Strings (1933)
- The Lash (1934)
- The Man Who Changed His Name (1934)
- Lord Edgware Dies (1934)
- Are You a Mason? (1934)
- The Rocks of Valpre (1935)
- The Lad (1935)
- D'Ye Ken John Peel? (1935)
- Vintage Wine (1935)
- Squibs (1935)
- The Private Secretary (1935)
- Scrooge (1935)
- Eliza Comes to Stay (1936)
- In the Soup (1936)
- Juggernaut (1936)
- Beauty and the Barge (1937)
- Song of the Forge (1937)
- Vicar of Bray (1937)
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