Sporting Love is a 1936 British musical comedy film directed by J. Elder Wills and starring Stanley Lupino, Laddie Cliff and Lu Ann Meredith. It was made at Beaconsfield Studios.[1] It was based on the musical Sporting Love which Stanley Lupino had written and starred in. Lupino had broken with British International Pictures to make a couple of independent films, but after this he returned to BIP.
Plot
Two brothers in a continual trough of financial depression try to tackle their money problems.
Cast
- Stanley Lupino as Percy Brace
- Laddie Cliff as Peter Brace
- Eda Peel as Maude Dane
- Lu Ann Meredith as Nellie Gray
- Bobbie Comber as Gerald Dane
- Henry Carlisle as Lord Dimsdale
- Clarissa Selwynne as Aunt Fanny
- Wyn Weaver as Wilfred Wimple
- Barry Lupino
- Arty Ash
- Syd Crossley
- Merle Tottenham
Critical reception
In 1940, Pathescope Monthly called it "A lively comedy you will enjoy!"[2]
References
- ^ Wood p.92
- ^ "SPORTING LOVE". www.pathefilm.uk.
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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