''The Wrong Mr. Perkins'' is a 1931 British

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directed by

Arthur Varney Arthur Varney was an Italian-born American screenwriter and film director. Born as Amerigo Serrao he emigrated to the United States and became a naturalized citizen.Koszarski p.306 In the 1930s he found work on the British film industry as Arthur ...

and starring

Herbert Mundin Herbert Thomas Mundin (21 August 1898 – 5 March 1939) was an English character actor. He was frequently typecast in 1930s Hollywood films like ''The Adventures of Robin Hood'' as an older cheeky eccentric, a type helped by his jowled feature ...

, John Stuart and

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. The screenplay concerns an impoverished man, Jimmy Perkins, who is mistaken by a banker for a wealthy man with a similar name.Shafer p.65

Cast

- Jimmy Perkins * John Stuart - Larry Byrne *

- Sir Trevor Petersham *

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- Mr Mellows

References

Bibliography

* Shafer, Stephen C. ''British popular films, 1929-1939: The Cinema of Reassurance''. Routledge, 1997.

External links

* 1931 films 1931 comedy films 1930s English-language films Films directed by Arthur Varney British comedy films British black-and-white films 1930s British films English-language comedy films {{1930s-UK-comedy-film-stub