Rookery Nook (film)
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Sheet music for featured song | |
Directed by | Tom Walls |
Produced by | Herbert Wilcox |
Written by |
W. P. Lipscomb Ben Travers |
Based on | the farce by Ben Travers |
Starring |
Tom Walls Ralph Lynn Winifred Shotter Mary Brough |
Cinematography |
Bernard Knowles William Shenton |
Edited by | Maclean Rogers (uncredited) |
Production company | |
Distributed by |
Woolf & Freedman Film Service (UK) MGM (US) |
Release date |
11 February 1930 (London) (UK) 21 June 1930 (US) |
Running time | 90 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | £14,000[1] |
Box office | £150,000 (England)[1] |
Rookery Nook is a 1930 film farce, directed by Tom Walls, with a script by Ben Travers. It is a screen adaptation of the original 1926 Aldwych farce of the same title. The film was known in the U.S. as One Embarrassing Night.[2]
The film was very successful at the box office and led to a series of filmed farces.[1][3]
Synopsis
Rhoda Marley seeks refuge overnight from a tyrannical stepfather in the house of Gerald Popkiss. He is alone there, as his wife is away; fearing a scandal he attempts to conceal Rhoda's presence from nosy domestic staff and his in-laws, with the help of his cousin Clive. Eventually all is explained, Gerald and his wife are reconciled, and Clive pairs off with Rhoda.
Cast
- Gerald Popkiss – Ralph Lynn*
- Clive Popkiss – Tom Walls*
- Rhoda Marley – Winifred Shotter*
- Mrs Leverett – Mary Brough*
- Harold Twine – Robertson Hare*
- Gertrude Twine – Ethel Coleridge*
- Putz – Griffith Humphreys*
- Poppy Dickey – Doreen Bendix
- Clara Popkiss – Margot Grahame
- Source: British Film Institute[4]
Cast members marked * were the creators of the roles in the original stage production.[5]
Production
The film was one of a slate of movies produced by British and Dominions Film Corporation in association with His Majesty's Voice Gramophone Company.[6] The film used the cast of the original stage production.[7]
Reception
Rookery Nook was voted the best British movie of 1930.[8]
According to one report, it was the most popular British film in Britain over the previous five years.[9]
Notes
- 1 2 3 Wilcox, Herbert (1967). Twenty Five Thousand Sunsets. South Brunswick. p. 88.
- ↑ Ben Travers. "One Embarrassing Night (1930) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast". AllMovie. Retrieved 2014-08-04.
- ↑ "DIRECTOR-PLAYERS". The West Australian. L, (9, 834). Western Australia. 5 January 1934. p. 3. Retrieved 27 August 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Rookery Nook", British Film Institute, accessed 14 February 2013.
- ↑ "Aldwych Theatre – Rookery Nook", The Times, 1 July 1926, p. 14.
- ↑ "SCREEN GOSSIP". Western Mail. XLIV, (2, 273). Western Australia. 5 September 1929. p. 7. Retrieved 27 August 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "MOVING PICTURES". The Australasian. CXXVIII, (4, 246). Victoria, Australia. 24 May 1930. p. 15 (METROPOLITAN EDITION). Retrieved 27 August 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Sunshine Susie", The Daily News, 19 August 1933, p. 19
- ↑ "THE MOVIE WORLD". Bowen Independent. 26, (2195). Queensland, Australia. 6 December 1930. p. 7. Retrieved 27 August 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
External links
- Rookery Nook on IMDb