The Officers' Mess

1931 film

  • Sydney Blow (play)
  • Douglas Hoare (play)
  • Eliot Stannard
Produced byHarry RowsonStarring
  • Richard Cooper
  • Harold French
  • Elsa Lanchester
CinematographyBasil Emmott
Production
company
Harry Rowson Productions
Distributed byParamount British Pictures
Release date
  • 15 May 1931 (1931-05-15)
Running time
98 minutesCountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglish

The Officers' Mess is a 1931 British comedy film directed by Manning Haynes and starring Richard Cooper, Harold French and Elsa Lanchester. It was made at Walton Studios.[1] It was released as a quota quickie by Paramount Pictures.

A Lieutenant becomes mixed-up with some stolen jewels.

Cast

  • Richard Cooper as Tony Turnbull
  • Harold French as Budge Harbottle
  • Elsa Lanchester as Cora Melville
  • Lilian Oldland as Kitty
  • Max Avieson as Bolton
  • Margery Binner as Phoebe
  • George Bellamy as Insp. Bedouin
  • Annie Esmond as Mrs. Makepiece
  • Fewlass Llewellyn as Adm. Harbottle
  • Helen Haye as Mrs. Harbottle
  • Faith Bennett as Ann Telford
  • Gordon Begg

References

  1. ^ Wood p.72

Bibliography

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

External links

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