''Bracelets'' is a 1931 British
crime film
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ...
directed by
Sewell Collins and starring
Bert Coote,
Joyce Kennedy
Joyce Kennedy (1898–1943) was a British stage and film actress
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such ...
and
Harold Huth
Harold Huth (20 January 1892 – 26 October 1967) was a British actor, film director and producer.
Biography Early life
He was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, in 1892. He was a nephew of Eva Moore and a cousin of the actor Roland Pertwee.
Fo ...
. A
jeweler
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is targeted by
confidence trickster
A confidence trick is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using their credulity, naïveté, compassion, vanity, confidence, irresponsibility, and greed. Researchers have def ...
s pretending to be connected with the exiled
Russian Royal Family. He manages to turn the tables on them, and, after collecting the reward for their arrest, uses the money to buy
silver
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bracelet
A bracelet is an article of jewellery that is worn around the wrist. Bracelets may serve different uses, such as being worn as an ornament. When worn as ornaments, bracelets may have a wikt:supportive, supportive function to hold other items of ...
s for his wife to celebrate their
wedding anniversary
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.
The film was made as a
second feature
A B movie or B film is a low-budget commercial motion picture. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified films intended for distribution as the less-publicized bottom half of a double featur ...
by the large British company
Gaumont British Picture Corporation
The Gaumont-British Picture Corporation produced and distributed films and operated a cinema chain in the United Kingdom. It was established as an offshoot of the Gaumont Film Company of France.
Film production
Gaumont-British was founded in 1 ...
.
[Chibnall p.263] It was made at the
Lime Grove Studios in
Shepherd's Bush
Shepherd's Bush is a district of West London, England, within the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham west of Charing Cross, and identified as a major metropolitan centre in the London Plan.
Although primarily residential in character, i ...
. The film's sets were designed by the French-born
art director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games.
It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
Andrew Mazzei
Andrew Mazzei (1887–1975) was a French-born British art director who designed the sets for more than sixty films during his career. Mazzei began his career in the late 1920s during the silent era including on the futuristic ''High Treason''. ...
. The director Sewell Collins wrote the screenplay, adapting his own stage play.
Cast
*
Bert Coote as Edwin Hobbett
*
Joyce Kennedy
Joyce Kennedy (1898–1943) was a British stage and film actress
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such ...
as Annie Moran
*
D. A. Clarke-Smith as Joe le Sage
* Margaret Emden as Mrs. Hobbett
*
Frederick Leister
Frederick Leister (1 December 1885 – 24 August 1970), was an English actor. He began his career in musical comedy and after serving in the First World War he played character roles in modern West End plays and in classic drama. He appeared in ...
as Slim Symes
*
Stella Arbenina as Countess Soumbatoff
*
Harold Huth
Harold Huth (20 January 1892 – 26 October 1967) was a British actor, film director and producer.
Biography Early life
He was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, in 1892. He was a nephew of Eva Moore and a cousin of the actor Roland Pertwee.
Fo ...
as Maurice Dupont
*
George Merritt as Director
References
Bibliography
*Chibnall, Steve. ''Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' Film''. British Film Institute, 2007.
*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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1931 films
British crime films
British black-and-white films
1931 crime films
Films directed by Sewell Collins
Films shot at Lime Grove Studios
Gainsborough Pictures films
British films based on plays
Films set in England
1930s English-language films
1930s British films
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