Foreign Affaires (1935)
An ageing aristocrat schemes to secure his dwindling finances by any means – fair or foul!
Casting
- Tom Walls — Capt. the Hon. Archibald Gore
- Ralph Lynn — Jefferson Darby
- Robertson Hare — Mr. Hardy Hornett
- Norma Varden — Mrs. Hardy Hornett
- Marie Lohr — Mrs. Cope
- Diana Churchill — Sophie
- Cecil Parker — Lord Wormington
- Kathleen Kelly — Millicent
- Gordon James — Rope
- Ivor Barnard — Count
- Mervyn Johns — Courtroom Interpreter (uncredited)
- Basil Radford — Basil Mallory (uncredited)
Interesting facts
Foreign Affaires is a 1935 British comedy film directed by and starring Tom Walls, and featuring Ralph Lynn, Robertson Hare, Norma Varden and Cecil Parker. The screenplay was by Ben Travers, and the cast includes actors from the Walls and Travers Aldwych Farces.
Production
Ben Travers wrote various stage farces that had been filmed, but this was an original script. Filming took place in August 1935.
Travers said the original title of the screenplay was Foreign Affairs and "it was typical of British film mentality that, without my being consulted, it was renamed Foreign Affaires. The movie provided aan early film role for Mervyn Johns who Travers said "so completely stole his one scene with Tom and Ralph that his part was almost completely cut out of the finally-edited version.
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