The Fortunate Fool
1933 film
- Hugh Wakefield
- Joan Wyndham
- Jack Raine
Production
company
company
Jack Eppel Productions
Release date
- 1933 (1933)
Running time
The Fortunate Fool is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Norman Walker and starring Hugh Wakefield, Joan Wyndham and Jack Raine.[1]
It was made at Ealing Studios as a quota quickie.[2] The film's sets were designed by the art director Wilfred Shingleton.
Cast
- Hugh Wakefield as Jim Falconer
- Joan Wyndham as Helen
- Jack Raine credited as Jack Raines as Gerald
- Elizabeth Jenns as Mildred
- Arthur Chesney as Batty
- Sara Allgood as Rose
- Bobbie Comber as Marlowe
- Mary Mayfren as Mrs Falconer
References
Bibliography
- Chibnall, Steve. Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' Film. British Film Institute, 2007.
- Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
- Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
External links
- The Fortunate Fool at IMDb
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The films of Norman Walker
- Tommy Atkins (1928)
- Widecombe Fair (1928)
- A Romance of Seville (1929)
- The Hate Ship (1929)
- Loose Ends (1930)
- The Middle Watch (1930)
- Uneasy Virtue (1931)
- The Shadow Between (1931)
- Mr. Bill the Conqueror (1932)
- Fires of Fate (1932)
- The Fortunate Fool (1933)
- Forging Ahead (1933)
- The Flaw (1933)
- The House of Trent (1933)
- The Way of Youth (1934)
- Lilies of the Field (1934)
- Dangerous Ground (1934)
- Turn of the Tide (1935)
- Key to Harmony (1935)
- Debt of Honour (1936)
- Our Fighting Navy (1937)
- Sunset in Vienna (1937)
- The Man at the Gate (1941)
- Hard Steel (1942)
- The Great Mr. Handel (1942)
- They Knew Mr. Knight (1946)
- John Wesley (1954)
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