''Excess Baggage'' is a 1933
British
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Peoples, culture, and language
* British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies.
** Britishness, the British identity and common culture
* British English, ...
comedy film
A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...
directed by
Redd Davis
Redd Davis (1896–?) was a Canadian film director and producer who directed more than twenty films between 1932 and 1942. He was born in Canada in 1896, but he moved to Britain where he directed his first film '' The Spare Room'' in 1932. He wor ...
and starring
Claud Allister
Claud Allister (born William Claud Michael Palmer, 3 October 1888 – 26 July 1970) was an English actor with an extensive film career in both Britain and Hollywood, where he appeared in more than 70 films between 1929 and 1955.
Life and ...
,
Frank Pettingell
Frank Edmund George Pettingell (1 January 1891 – 17 February 1966) was an English actor.
Pettingell was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, and educated at Manchester University. During the First World War he served with the King's Liverpool Re ...
,
Sydney Fairbrother
Sydney Fairbrother (31 July 1872 – 4 January 1941) was a British actress.
Born Sydney Tapping on 31 July 1872 in London to actor/playwright Alfred B. Tapping and actress Florence Cowell, she was educated at Blackpool and Bonn. She made her sta ...
,
Rene Ray
Irene Lilian Brodrick, Countess of Midleton (née Creese, known as Rene Ray, 22 September 1911 – 28 August 1993) was a British stage and screen actress of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s and also a novelist.
Acting career
Ray made her screen début ...
,
Gerald Rawlinson
Gerald Rawlinson (1904–1975) was a British actor.
Selected filmography
*''The Hellcat'' (1928)
*''Life's a Stage'' (1928)
*'' The Rising Generation'' (1928)
*'' Young Woodley'' (1928)
*'' The Silent House'' (1929)
*''The Devil's Maze'' (192 ...
and
Viola Compton
Viola Maud Compton–Mackenzie (26 November 1886 – 7 April 1971), known as Viola Compton, was an English film actress. Born in Fulham, London, she was the second of three siblings born to the actors Edward Compton and Virginia Frances Batem ...
. Its plot concerns a British army Colonel mistakenly who thinks he has killed his superior officer while hunting down a
ghost. It was made at
Twickenham Studios
Twickenham Studios (formerly known as Twickenham Film Studios) is a film studio in St Margarets, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, that is used by various motion picture and television companies. It was established in 1913 by Ralph ...
in west
London
London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...
as a
quota quickie
The Cinematograph Films Act of 1927 ('' 17 & 18 Geo. V'') was an act of the United Kingdom Parliament designed to stimulate the declining British film industry. It received Royal Assent on 20 December 1927 and came into force on 1 April 1928.
D ...
for distribution 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
RKO Pictures.
[Chibnall p.267]
Cast
*
Claud Allister
Claud Allister (born William Claud Michael Palmer, 3 October 1888 – 26 July 1970) was an English actor with an extensive film career in both Britain and Hollywood, where he appeared in more than 70 films between 1929 and 1955.
Life and ...
as Colonel Murgatroyd
*
Frank Pettingell
Frank Edmund George Pettingell (1 January 1891 – 17 February 1966) was an English actor.
Pettingell was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, and educated at Manchester University. During the First World War he served with the King's Liverpool Re ...
as Major General Booster
*
Sydney Fairbrother
Sydney Fairbrother (31 July 1872 – 4 January 1941) was a British actress.
Born Sydney Tapping on 31 July 1872 in London to actor/playwright Alfred B. Tapping and actress Florence Cowell, she was educated at Blackpool and Bonn. She made her sta ...
as Miss Toop
*
Rene Ray
Irene Lilian Brodrick, Countess of Midleton (née Creese, known as Rene Ray, 22 September 1911 – 28 August 1993) was a British stage and screen actress of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s and also a novelist.
Acting career
Ray made her screen début ...
as Angela Murgatroyd
*
Gerald Rawlinson
Gerald Rawlinson (1904–1975) was a British actor.
Selected filmography
*''The Hellcat'' (1928)
*''Life's a Stage'' (1928)
*'' The Rising Generation'' (1928)
*'' Young Woodley'' (1928)
*'' The Silent House'' (1929)
*''The Devil's Maze'' (192 ...
as Clive Worthington
*
Viola Compton
Viola Maud Compton–Mackenzie (26 November 1886 – 7 April 1971), known as Viola Compton, was an English film actress. Born in Fulham, London, she was the second of three siblings born to the actors Edward Compton and Virginia Frances Batem ...
as Martha Murgatroyd
*
O. B. Clarence as Lord Grebe
* Maud Gill as Duchess of Dillwater
*
Finlay Currie as Inspector Toucan
References
Bibliography
* Chibnall, Steve. ''Quota Quickies: The British of the British 'B' Film''. British Film Institute, 2007.
External links
*
1933 films
Films directed by Redd Davis
1933 comedy films
British comedy films
Films shot at Twickenham Film Studios
British black-and-white films
Quota quickies
1930s English-language films
1930s British films
English-language comedy films
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