Sporting Love (film)

Sporting Love
Directed by	J. Elder Wills
Written by	Stanley Lupino (play) Ingram D'Abbes Fenn Sherie
Produced by	Henry Passmore
Starring	Stanley Lupino Laddie Cliff Lu Ann Meredith
Cinematography	Eric Cross
Edited by	Hugh Stewart
Music by	Billy Mayerl Eric Ansell Jack Beaver
Production company	Hammer Films
Distributed by	British Lion Film Corporation
Release date	24 May 1936 (1936-05-24)
Running time	67 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Sporting Love is a 1936 British musical comedy film directed by J. Elder Wills and starring Stanley Lupino, Laddie Cliff and Lu Ann Meredith. It was made at Beaconsfield Studios.[1] It was based on the musical Sporting Love which Stanley Lupino had written and starred in. Lupino had broken with British International Pictures to make a couple of independent films, but after this he returned to BIP.

Plot

Two brothers in a continual trough of financial depression try to tackle their money problems.

Cast

• Stanley Lupino as Percy Brace
• Laddie Cliff as Peter Brace
• Eda Peel as Maude Dane
• Lu Ann Meredith as Nellie Gray
• Bobbie Comber as Gerald Dane
• Henry Carlisle as Lord Dimsdale
• Clarissa Selwynne as Aunt Fanny
• Wyn Weaver as Wilfred Wimple
• Barry Lupino
• Arty Ash
• Syd Crossley
• Merle Tottenham

Critical reception

In 1940, Pathescope Monthly called it "A lively comedy you will enjoy!"[2]

References

1. Wood p.92
2. "SPORTING LOVE". www.pathefilm.uk.

Bibliography

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

External links

• Sporting Love at IMDb