We're Going to Be Rich

We're Going to Be Rich
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Directed byMonty Banks
Written bySam Hellman
Rohama Siegel
James Edward Grant
Produced bySamuel G. Engel
StarringGracie Fields
Victor McLaglen
Brian Donlevy
CinematographyMutz Greenbaum
Music byBretton Byrd
Production
company
Distributed byTwentieth Century Fox
Release date
  • 3 July 1938 (1938-07-03)
Running time
78 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£307,441[1]

We're Going to Be Rich is a 1938 British historical musical comedy film directed by Monty Banks and starring Gracie Fields, Victor McLaglen and Brian Donlevy.

Plot

During the 1880s Kit Dobson, an English music hall singer performing in Australia, has scraped together enough money to buy a passage home to Britain with plans to settle down. However, unknown to her, her unreliable boyfriend has used most of the money to buy a gold mine in South Africa. They arrive in Gold Rush Johannesburg only to find that they have been swindled. The only option left for them is for Kit to seek a job singing in a saloon run by an American known as Yankee Gordon.

Cast

Production

The film was the first made following Fields switch from Ealing Studios to 20th Century Fox. It was shot at Denham Studios.[2] It was made with a budget of $500,000.[3]

References

  1. ^ Chapman, Llewella. "'The highest salary ever paid to a human being': Creating a Database of Film Costs from the Bank of England". Journal of British cinema and television, 2022-10. Vol. 19, no. 4. Edinburgh University Press. p. 470-494 at 487.
  2. ^ Wood p.97
  3. ^ Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 240

Bibliography

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


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