Vintage Wine
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{{Infobox film
| name = Vintage Wine
| image = Vintage_Wine.jpg
| caption = Opening title
| director = Henry Edwards
| producer = Julius Hagen
| writer = Ashley Dukes
Seymour Hicks
H. Fowler Mear
| narrator =
| starring = Seymour Hicks
Claire Luce
Eva Moore
Judy Gunn
| music = W. L. Trytel
| cinematography = Sydney Blythe
| editing = Baynham Honri
Ralph Kemplen
| studio = Twickenham Studios
| distributor = Gaumont British Distributors
| released = {{Film date|1935|06|20|df=yes}}
| runtime = 81 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
}}
Vintage Wine is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Seymour Hicks, Claire Luce, Eva Moore and Judy Gunn.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090116055022/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/56730 Vintage Wine] at British Film Institute The film was made at Julius Hagen's Twickenham Studios, but was released by Gaumont British Distributors which was the largest British film company at the time. The film was loosely based on a German play by Alexander Engels, which also formed the basis of the 1934 West End comedy by Ashley Dukes and Seymour Hicks.{{Cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/play/392/vintage-wine/production/z7z|title=Production of Vintage Wine | Theatricalia|website=theatricalia.com}}
Synopsis
The members of the Popinot family of French champagne tycoons suspect that the widowed head of the family Charles Popinot is keeping a mistress in Rome and generally living a wild life. Unbeknownst to them he has happily remarried and had a son with a much younger woman. She believes he is twenty years younger than he really is and is shocked when his relatives including his mother, grown-up sons and granddaughter arrive in Italy.
Cast
- Seymour Hicks as Charles Popinot
- Claire Luce as Nina Popinot
- Eva Moore as Josephine Popinot
- Judy Gunn as Blanche Popinot
- Miles Malleson as Henri Popinot
- Kynaston Reeves as Benedict Popinot
- Michael Shepley as Richard Emsley
- A. Bromley Davenport as Pierre
- Amy Brandon Thomas as Minor role
- Elisabeth Croft as Minor role
- Kathleen Weston as Family Member.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/elisabeth-croft-602063.html|title=Actress Obituaries-Elisabeth Croft|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=18 January 2003|access-date=17 July 2011|location=London|first=Anthony|last=Hayward}}{{dead link|date=August 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
References
Bibliography
- Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
- Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927–1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
External links
- {{IMDb title|0139723}}
{{Henry Edwards}}
Category:Films directed by Henry Edwards
Category:Films shot at Twickenham Film Studios
Category:British films based on plays
Category:British black-and-white films
Category:1930s English-language films
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