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Foreign Affaires

  • 19351935
  • 1h 11m
IMDb RATING
5.9/10
49
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Foreign Affaires (1935)
Comedy
Upper class but broke, two British scroungers cause havoc in high society on the French Riviera.Upper class but broke, two British scroungers cause havoc in high society on the French Riviera.Upper class but broke, two British scroungers cause havoc in high society on the French Riviera.
IMDb RATING
5.9/10
49
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    • Tom Walls
    • Ben Travers(dialogue)
  • Stars
    • Tom Walls
    • Ralph Lynn
    • Robertson Hare
    • Tom Walls
    • Ben Travers(dialogue)
  • Stars
    • Tom Walls
    • Ralph Lynn
    • Robertson Hare
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    • 3User reviews
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    Tom Walls
    Tom Walls
    • Capt. the Hon. Archibald Gore
    Ralph Lynn
    Ralph Lynn
    • Jefferson Darby
    Robertson Hare
    Robertson Hare
    • Mr. Hardy Hornett
    Norma Varden
    Norma Varden
    • Mrs. Hardy Hornett
    Marie Lohr
    Marie Lohr
    • Mrs. Cope
    Diana Churchill
    Diana Churchill
    • Sophie
    Cecil Parker
    Cecil Parker
    • Lord Wormington
    Kathleen Kelly
    • Millicent
    Gordon James
    • Rope
    Ivor Barnard
    Ivor Barnard
    • Count
    Mervyn Johns
    Mervyn Johns
    • Courtroom interpreter
    Basil Radford
    Basil Radford
    • Basil Mallory
    Sebastian Cabot
    Sebastian Cabot
    • Bit Role
    • (uncredited)
    Victor Fairley
    • Henri - Casino Patron
    • (uncredited)
    Martita Hunt
    Martita Hunt
    • Bit
    • (uncredited)
    Gordon McLeod
    • Jarvis
    • (uncredited)
      • Tom Walls
      • Ben Travers(dialogue) (screenplay) (story)
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      Sebastian Cabot's first film.

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    5/10
    Very much a period piece
    This concoction, very much of its time, was a comedic account of some ne'er do wells at large at Nice in the south of France, put together by a team of men who worked together for years, Tom Walls who both directed and starred, Ralph Lynn, Ben Travers the writer, and several others in the cast who were part of the same bunch of chums. They used to stage farces at London's Aldwych Theatre in the 1920s, and in the 1930s they made several films like this. The acting and the approach are very theatrical and somewhat stiff for the screen. But they mean well, and they pull off a passably entertaining yarn, even though the humour is rather arch, not to say 'proscenium arch'. Robertson Hare and Norma Varden are superb at playing an absolutely ghastly couple, and the tiny Ivor Barnard makes one uneasy as 'the Count', since one believes he may really be that creepy and sinister. Cecil Parker is a classic bombast as a self-satisfied and pompous landed peer. These are stock characters, and very much a glimpse at 1930s Britain, with its types and its fantasies. How 'in' grand gambling casinos were then! How black were the black ties and how white were the white ties! As one looks at these old films, one appreciates more and more how much 'dressing for dinner' and all that it represented were as much a uniform as Army fatigues, and as earnest a recipe for exclusivity as the hijab.
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      • February 17, 1936 (United Kingdom)
      • United Kingdom
      • English
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      • Gainsborough Pictures
      • Gaumont British Picture Corporation
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    • 1 hour 11 minutes
      • Black and White
      • Mono

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