Strangers on Honeymoon

Strangers on Honeymoon
Original lobby card
Directed by Albert de Courville
Produced by Haworth Bromley
Written by Laird Doyle
Sidney Gilliat
Julian Houston
Ralph Spence
Bryan Edgar Wallace
Based on novel The Northing Tramp by Edgar Wallace
Starring Constance Cummings
Hugh Sinclair
Noah Beery
Beatrix Lehmann
Music by Jack Beaver
Cinematography Mutz Greenbaum
Edited by Cyril Randell
Production
company
Distributed by Gaumont British Distributors
Release date
 18 January 1937
Running time
 66 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English

Strangers on Honeymoon is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Constance Cummings, Hugh Sinclair and Noah Beery, based on a 1926 novel by Edgar Wallace.[1] Much of the film takes place in Canada. It was made by Gainsborough Pictures at the Lime Grove Studios in Shepherd's Bush. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ernö Metzner.[2] Wallace's son (Bryan Edgar Wallace) also contributed to the film's screenplay, along with 5 other writers.[3]

Plot

Young orphan October (Constance Cummings) flees from an arranged marriage with Wilfred (James Arnold), to wed gentleman tramp Quigley (Hugh Sinclair) for a bet. However Quigley is secretly an English nobleman on the run for a murder he did not commit. Events ecalate when a cousin of the jilted Wilfred hires a pair of hoodlums (Noah Beery & David Burns) to bump off Quigley.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ Wood p.92
  2. ↑ "Strangers on Honeymoon (1936)".
  3. ↑ "Strangers Honeymoon (1937) - Albert de Courville - Cast and Crew - AllMovie". AllMovie.

Bibliography

  • Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
  • Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

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