Me and Marlborough

Me and Marlborough
Directed by	Victor Saville
Produced by	Michael Balcon
Written by	Marjorie Gaffney Ian Hay W.P. Lipscomb Reginald Pound
Starring	Cicely Courtneidge Tom Walls Barry McKay Petr Gawthorne Henry Oscar Cecil Parker
Music by	Louis Levy
Cinematography	Curt Courant Charles Van Enger
Edited by	Michael Gordon
Distributed by	Gainsborough Pictures Gaumont
Release dates	1935
Running time	84 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Me and Marlborough is a 1935 British comedy film, directed by Victor Saville, and starring Cicely Courtneidge, Tom Walls, Barry MacKay, Peter Gawthorne, Henry Oscar and Cecil Parker.^[1]

Plot summary

England, 1710. A woman disguises herself as a man and joins up with the Duke of Marlborough's army in Flanders to find her missing husband.^[2]^[3]

Cast

Cicely Courtneidge - Kit Ross
Tom Walls - Duke of Marlborough
Barry MacKay - Dick Welch
Alfred Drayton - Sergeant Bull
Iris Ashley - Josephine
Ivor McLaren - Sergeant Cummings
Gibb McLaughlin - Old soldier
Peter Gawthorne - Staff Colonel
Cecil Parker - Colonel of the Greys
George Merritt - Harley
Mickey Brantford - Ensign Coke
Randle Ayrton - Louis XIV
Henry Oscar - Goultier
Cyril Smith as Corporal Fox

Reception

Writing for The Spectator, Graham Greene criticized the theatrical qualities of Courtneidge's performance, claiming that "I found myself too embarrassed by Miss Courtneidge's facial contortions to appreciate their share. Miss Courtneidge is used to throwing her effects to the back row of a theatre gallery, and the camera is not kind to her exaggerations".^[4]

References

↑ "Me and Marlborough (1935)". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2014-02-15.
↑ "BFI | Film & TV Database | ME AND MARLBOROUGH (1935)". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. 2009-04-16. Retrieved 2014-02-15.
↑ "Me and Marlborough | Britmovie | Home of British Films". Britmovie. Retrieved 2014-02-15.
↑ Greene, Graham (6 September 1935). "Dood Wasser/Me and Marlborough". The Spectator. (reprinted in: John Russel, Taylor, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. p. 19. ISBN 0192812866. )

Films directed by Victor Saville

The Arcadians (1927)
Tesha (1928)
Kitty (1929)
Woman to Woman (1929)
The W Plan (1930)
A Warm Corner (1930)
The Sport of Kings (1931)
Hindle Wakes (1931)
Michael and Mary (1931)
Sunshine Susie (1931)
The Faithful Heart (1932)
Love on Wheels (1932)
The Good Companions (1933)
I Was a Spy (1933)
Friday the Thirteenth (1933)
Evergreen (1934)
Evensong (1934)
The Iron Duke (1934)
The Dictator (1935)
Me and Marlborough (1935)
First a Girl (1935)
It's Love Again (1936)
Dark Journey (1937)
Storm in a Teacup (1937)
Action for Slander (1937)
South Riding (1938)
The Earl of Chicago (1940)
Forever and a Day (1943)
Tonight and Every Night (1945)
The Green Years (1946)
Green Dolphin Street (1947)
Desire Me (1947)
If Winter Comes (1947)
Conspirator (1949)
Kim (1950)
Calling Bulldog Drummond (1951)
24 Hours of a Woman's Life (1952)
The Long Wait (1954)
The Silver Chalice (1954)

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