The Laughter of Fools
1933 film
- October 1933 (1933-10)
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The Laughter of Fools is a 1933 British drama film directed by Adrian Brunel and starring D. A. Clarke-Smith, Derrick De Marney and Helen Ferrers. It was based on a play by H. F. Maltby. The screenplay concerns an ambitious mother who plans to marry her daughter to a sea captain.
The film was a quota quickie made at Nettlefold Studios in Walton by the independent producer George Smith as part of a contract from Fox who needed a supply of films to distribute in order to comply with the terms of the quota.
Cast
- D. A. Clarke-Smith as Plunket
- Derrick De Marney as Captain Vidal
- Helen Ferrers as Mrs. Gregg
- Eliot Makeham as John Gregg
- Granville Ferrier as Hughes Sr.
- Pat Paterson as Doris Gregg
- Minnie Taylor as Elizabeth
- George Thirlwell as Bertie Gregg
- Dorothy Vernon as Cook
- Fred Withers as Nuttall
Bibliography
- Chibnall, Steve. Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' film. British Film Institute, 2007.
- Low, Rachael. History of the British Film: Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
External links
- The Laughter of Fools at IMDb
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Films directed by Adrian Brunel
- The Cost of a Kiss (1917)
- The Man Without Desire (1923)
- Lovers in Araby (1924)
- Blighty (1927)
- The Constant Nymph (1928)
- The Vortex (1928)
- A Light Woman (1928)
- The Crooked Billet (1929)
- Taxi to Paradise (1933)
- Two Wives for Henry (1933)
- The Laughter of Fools (1933)
- I'm an Explosive (1933)
- Follow the Lady (1933)
- Important People (1934)
- Badger's Green (1934)
- Menace (1934)
- City of Beautiful Nonsense (1935)
- Cross Currents (1935)
- While Parents Sleep (1935)
- Variety (1935)
- Vanity (1935)
- The Invader (1935)
- Prison Breaker (1936)
- Love at Sea (1936)
- The Rebel Son (1938)
- The Lion Has Wings (1939)
- The Girl Who Forgot (1940)
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