''Her Night Out'' is a 1932 British
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
William C. McGann and starring
Dorothy Bartlam
Dorothy Ezard Bartlam (November 8, 1907 in Goole, Yorkshire – September, 1991 in Bournemouth, Hampshire) was an English actress.
Filmography
* '' A Woman Redeemed'' (1927)
* '' The Fake'' (1927)
* '' A Little Bit of Fluff'' (1928)
* '' Not ...
,
Lester Matthews
Arthur Lester Matthews (6 June 1900 – 5 June 1975) was an English actor. In his career, the handsome Englishman made more than 180 appearances in film and on television. He was erroneously credited in later years as Les Matthews. Matthews pla ...
and
Joan Marion
Joan Marion Nicholls (28 September 19085 November 2001), known professionally as Joan Marion, was an Australian-born stage, film and television actress. Her family moved to Britain when she was three, and at eighteen she attended the Royal Acade ...
.
[Wood p.74] It is also known by the
alternative title
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of ''Alone at Last''. It is 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 ...
, made at
Teddington Studios
Teddington Studios was a large British television studio in Teddington, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, providing studio facilities for programmes airing on the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky1 and others. The complex also prov ...
by the British subsidiary of the
Hollywood studio
Warner Brothers
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Warner Bros. or abbreviated as WB) is an American Film studio, film and entertainment studio headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank, Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, Califo ...
.
Synopsis
A married couple accidentally become mixed up with a bank robber.
Cast
*
Dorothy Bartlam
Dorothy Ezard Bartlam (November 8, 1907 in Goole, Yorkshire – September, 1991 in Bournemouth, Hampshire) was an English actress.
Filmography
* '' A Woman Redeemed'' (1927)
* '' The Fake'' (1927)
* '' A Little Bit of Fluff'' (1928)
* '' Not ...
as Kitty Vickery
*
Lester Matthews
Arthur Lester Matthews (6 June 1900 – 5 June 1975) was an English actor. In his career, the handsome Englishman made more than 180 appearances in film and on television. He was erroneously credited in later years as Les Matthews. Matthews pla ...
as Gerald Vickery
*
Joan Marion
Joan Marion Nicholls (28 September 19085 November 2001), known professionally as Joan Marion, was an Australian-born stage, film and television actress. Her family moved to Britain when she was three, and at eighteen she attended the Royal Acade ...
as Goldie
*
Jack Raine
Thomas Foster "Jack" Raine (18 May 1897 – 30 May 1979) was an English stage, television and film actor.
He was a leading man of the British cinema in the late twenties and early thirties in such films as ''The Hate Ship'' (1929), '' Raise the ...
as Jim Hanley
*
Dodo Watts
Dorothy Margaret Watts (1910–1990), known professionally as Dodo Watts, was a British stage and film actress. She played Fay Eaton in the 1929 Broadway version of Ian Hay's play ''The Middle Watch'', and reprised her role in the 1930 British ...
as Toots
References
Bibliography
* Low, Rachael. ''Filmmaking in 1930s Britain''. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
* Wood, Linda. ''British Films, 1927-1939''. British Film Institute, 1986.
External links
1932 films
Films directed by William C. McGann
1932 comedy films
British comedy films
Films shot at Teddington Studios
Warner Bros. films
British black-and-white films
1930s English-language films
1930s British films
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