Leave It to Smith

{{Short description|1933 film}}

{{for|the P. G. Wodehouse novel|Leave It to Psmith}}

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{{Use British English|date=June 2016}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Leave It to Smith

| image =

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| director = Tom Walls

| producer = Michael Balcon

|based_on = {{based on|Never Come Back|Frederick Lonsdale}}

| writer = J. O. C. Orton

| starring = Tom Walls
Carol Goodner
Anne Grey

| music = Louis Levy

| cinematography = Leslie Rowson

| editing =

| studio = Gaumont British Picture Corporation

| distributor = Woolf and Freedman

| released = {{Film date|1933|09|13|df=yes}}

| runtime = 74 minutes

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| budget =

| gross =

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Leave It to Smith is a 1933 British comedy film directed by and starring Tom Walls. It also featured Carol Goodner, Anne Grey, Peter Gawthorne and Basil Radford. It is also known as Just Smith.{{cite web |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/38630/?availableLicense=yes |title=BFI | Film & TV Database | JUST SMITH (1933) |accessdate=24 March 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018081542/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/38630/?availableLicense=yes |archivedate=18 October 2012}}

The film was based on a play by Frederick Lonsdale and produced by Michael Balcon. It was made at the Lime Grove StudiosWood p.78 with sets by the German art director Alfred Junge.

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Bibliography

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