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Release Date:
April 26, 1936
Original Title:
The Amateur Gentleman
Genres:
Adventure
Production Companies:
Criterion Film Productions Ltd.
Production Countries:
United Kingdom
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 102
A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn, who happen to be members of English royalty. The old man is arrested and thrown in prison. His son, knowing that his father didn't steal the watch and suspecting a frame-up, follows the royal party to London, where he poses as a wealthy "gentleman" and insinuates himself into the English court in an effort to find out who framed his father and why.
Adaptation:
Clemence Dane
Sergei Nolbandov
Art Direction:
Edward Carrick
Assistant Art Director:
Peggy Gick
Choreographer:
Quentin Tod
Costume Design:
B.J. Simmons
Director:
Thornton Freeland
Director of Photography:
Günther Krampf
Editor:
Conrad von Molo
Music:
Richard Addinsell
Walter Goehr
Novel:
Jeffery Farnol
Producer:
Marcel Hellman
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Production Manager:
Sergei Nolbandov
Sound Recordist:
W.H. Clark
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