It's a Grand Old World is a 1937 British comedy film directed by Herbert Smith and starring Sandy Powell, Gina Malo and Cyril Ritchard. It was made at Beaconsfield Studios. The film's sets were designed by Norman Arnold.
Synopsis
An unemployed man wins the football pools, and decides to buy a country house for his actress girlfriend.
, 1h24 Réalisé parAnthony Kimmins OrigineRoyaume-uni GenresComédie, Musical ThèmesMusique ActeursGeorge Formby, Kay Walsh, Betty Stockfeld, Cyril Ritchard, Garry Marsh, Frederick Burtwell Note59% The farcical adventures of a prop man (George Formby) with a touring ice ballet. Inventing a new sort of candid camera in his spare time, and concealing it in a bow-tie, our hero gets into a mess of trouble when he takes an incriminating photo of an important man; pulls a communication cord; winds up in jail; referees a hockey match; finds himself in a stage show dressed as a cosack; woos an attractive young ice skater (Kay Walsh); and eventually wins a job on a newspaper.
, 1h15 Réalisé parMaclean Rogers OrigineRoyaume-uni GenresComédie ActeursGarry Marsh, Roddy Hughes, Cyril Chamberlain, Robert Adams, Sebastian Cabot, Peter Swanwick Note49% Mother Riley, working in an antique shop with daughter Kitty, uncovers a secret treasure map hidden in the headboard of an antique bed. With the help of the ghost of the pirate Captain Morgan, mother and daughter head for a remote tropical island in the South Seas, and begin their hunt for buried treasure. Not only do they find the fortune, but Mother Riley ends up celebrated by natives as a tribal queen.
, 1h22 Réalisé parVal Guest OrigineRoyaume-uni GenresComédie ActeursMichael Rennie, Yolande Donlan, Garry Marsh, Emrys Jones, Reginald Beckwith, Helena Pickard Note58% Laramie Pilgrim (Yolande Donlan) is an American exchange factory worker who trades places with an upper class British girl. After much adjusting to English country life, and with the various attendant culture clashes, Miss Pilgrim comes to the rescue of her new village and its exploitation by a local land developer.