''An Englishman's Home'' is a 1940 British

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directed by Albert de Courville and starring

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, Mary Maguire and

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. It is an adaptation of the 1909 play '' An Englishman's Home'' by

Guy du Maurier Guy Louis Busson du Maurier DSO (18 May 1865, London, England – 9 March 1915, Kemmel, Flanders, Belgium) was an English army officer and playwright. He was the son of the writer George du Maurier and brother of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies and ...

. It was filmed at Denham Studios outside

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with production commencing in May 1939. The film's sets were designed by the

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Wilfred Arnold. It was picked up for distribution in the United States by

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who released it in June 1940 under the alternative title ''Mad Men of Europe''.Shull & Wilt p.147

Cast

as Tom Brown * Mary Maguire as Betty Brown *

as Victor Brandt * Geoffrey Toone as Peter Templeton * Richard Ainley as Geoffrey Brown *

Desmond Tester Sydney Desmond Tester (17 February 1919 – 31 December 2002) was an England, English film and television actor, Television presenter, host and executive. He was born in London, England, and started his career as child actor, among his most nota ...

as Billy Brown *

Carl Jaffe Carl Jaffe (21 March 1902 – 12 April 1974) was a German actor. Jaffe trained on the stage in his native Hamburg, Kassel and Wiesbaden before moving to Berlin, where his career began to develop. In 1933 Jaffe changed his stage name to Fran ...

as Martin *

Meinhart Maur Meinhart Maur ( hu, Grünbaum Menyhért, 18 August 1891 – 27 November 1964) was a Hungarian-German film actor. He appeared in more than 40 films between 1919 and 1954. He was born in Hajdúnánás, Hungary and died in London, England. Select ...

as Waldo *

Mavis Villiers Mavis Villiers (born Mavis Clare Cooney; 10 December 190923 February 1976) was an Australian-born British actress of stage, film and television. Her parents were John Cooney and Clara Smythe. Her brother, Cecil Cooney, was a camera operator an ...

as Dolly * Mark Lester as Uncle Ben *

Norah Howard Norah Howard (12 December 1900 - 2 May 1968) was a British actress of stage and screen. Biography She was born as Norah Lillian Emily Smeed on 12 December 1900, in Fulham, London, England, her father was Alfred Howard Smeed. She changed her sta ...

as Maggie * John Wood as Jimmy

References

Bibliography

* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. *Shull, Michael S. & Wilt, David Edward. ''Hollywood War Films, 1937-1945: An Exhaustive Filmography of American Feature-Length Motion Pictures Relating to World War II''. McFarland, 2015. * Wood, Linda. ''British Films, 1927-1939''. British Film Institute, 1986.

External links

* 1940 films 1940 drama films 1940s English-language films British drama films British black-and-white films 1940s British films Films directed by Albert de Courville Films shot at Denham Film Studios United Artists films British films based on plays Films scored by Louis Levy {{1940s-UK-film-stub