My Old Dutch (1934 film)

My Old Dutch
Directed by	Sinclair Hill
Produced by	Ivor Montagu
Written by	Leslie Arliss Marjorie Gaffney Michael Hogan Mary Murillo Arthur Shirley Bryan Edgar Wallace
Starring	Betty Balfour Gordon Harker Florrie Forde
Music by	Jack Beaver Louis Levy
Cinematography	Leslie Rowson
Production company	Gainsborough Pictures
Distributed by	Gaumont British Distributors
Release dates	October 1934
Running time	82 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

My Old Dutch is a 1934 British drama film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Betty Balfour, Gordon Harker, Michael Hogan and Florrie Forde. The film portrays the lives of Londoners during the First World War.^[1] The film was made at Islington Studios by Gainsborough Pictures.^[2] The film's sets were designed by Peter Proud.

Synopsis

This film tracks the highlights of a cockney couple's son as he marries a rich man's disowned daughter and dies in the RFC. It is also based on Albert Chevalier's famous song and was made after the stage play written by Arthur Shirley.

Cast

Betty Balfour as Lil
Gordon Harker as Ernie
Michael Hogan as Bert
Florrie Forde as Aunt Bertha
Mickey Brantford as Jim
Glennis Lorimer as Valerie Paraday
Peter Gawthorne as Mr Paraday
Frank Pettingell as Uncle Alf
Robert Nainby as Grandpa
Bill Shine as Cousin 'arry
Finlay Currie as Mo
Felix Aylmer as Judge
John Singer as Jim as a child
Ronald Shiner

References

↑ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/43566
↑ Wood p.83

Bibliography

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

External links

My Old Dutch at AllMovie
My Old Dutch at the British Film Institute's Film and TV Database
My Old Dutch at the Internet Movie Database

The films of Sinclair Hill

The Tidal Wave (1920)
The Place of Honour (1921)
The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown (1921)
The Truants (1922)
The Nonentity (1922)
The Lonely Lady of Grosvenor Square (1922)
The Experiment (1922)
Open Country (1922)
Half a Truth (1922)
Expiation (1922)
One Arabian Night (1923)
The Indian Love Lyrics (1923)
White Slippers (1924)
The Conspirators (1924)
The Squire of Long Hadley (1925)
The Secret Kingdom (1925)
The Qualified Adventurer (1925)
The Presumption of Stanley Hay, MP (1925)
Sahara Love (1926)
The Chinese Bungalow (1926)
A Woman Redeemed (1927)
The King's Highway (1927)
Boadicea (1927)
The Guns of Loos (1928)
The Price of Divorce (1928)
The Unwritten Law (1929)
Greek Street (1930)
Dark Red Roses (1930)
Such Is the Law (1930)
The Great Gay Road (1931)
Other People's Sins (1931)
A Gentleman of Paris (1931)
The First Mrs. Fraser (1932)
The Man from Toronto (1933)
Britannia of Billingsgate (1933)
My Old Dutch (1934)
Hyde Park Corner (1935)
The Cardinal (1936)
The Gay Adventure (1936)
Take a Chance (1937)
Midnight Menace (1937)
Command Performance (1937)
Follow Your Star (1938)

Films produced by Gainsborough Pictures

The "Gainsborough melodramas"	The Man in Grey (1943) Madonna of the Seven Moons (1944) Fanny by Gaslight (1944) The Wicked Lady (1945) Caravan (1946) Jassy (1947)

Other	The Passionate Adventure (1924) The Rat (1925) The Sea Urchin (1926) The Triumph of the Rat (1926) Blighty (1927) The Constant Nymph (1928) The First Born (1928) The Return of the Rat (1929) Taxi for Two (1929) Night in Montmartre (1931) Hindle Wakes (1931) Jack's the Boy (1932) It's a Boy (1933) Friday the Thirteenth (1933) Wild Boy (1934) My Old Dutch (1934) The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936) Oh, Mr Porter! (1937) Doctor Syn (1937) Strange Boarders (1938) The Ghost Train (1941) I Thank You (1941) Back-Room Boy (1942) Uncensored (1942) Bees in Paradise (1944) Time Flies (1944) Give Us the Moon (1944) Two Thousand Women (1944) Love Story (1944) Waterloo Road (1945) A Place of One's Own (1945) They Were Sisters (1945) The Magic Bow (1946) The Root of All Evil (1947) Dear Murderer (1947) Easy Money (1948) Miranda (1948) My Brother's Keeper (1948) Here Come the Huggetts (1948) Vote for Huggett (1949) It's Not Cricket (1949) The Huggetts Abroad (1949) Marry Me! (1949) Christopher Columbus (1949)

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