While Parents Sleep

While Parents Sleep
Directed by	Adrian Brunel
Produced by	Paul Soskin
Written by	John Paddy Carstairs Jack Marks Anthony Kimmins Edwin Greenwood
Starring	Jean Gillie Enid Stamp Taylor Romilly Lunge
Music by	Percival Mackey
Cinematography	Ernest Palmer
Edited by	Michael Hankinson
Production company	British & Dominions Film Corporation
Distributed by	United Artists Corporation
Release dates	September 1935
Running time	72 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

While Parents Sleep is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Adrian Brunel and starring Jean Gillie, Enid Stamp Taylor and Romilly Lunge. The film is a screen adaptation of a 1933 play by Anthony Kimmins, which had been a popular success on the West End stage in the West End of London.

Unlike many of Brunel's 1930s quota quickie films, While Parents Sleep has survived and is regarded as an example of his ability to produce a worthwhile film under the most straitened of financial conditions. The Time Out Film Guide notes: "With a couple of tatty sets and a bunch of unknown actors, he produces a witty, sharply-paced, economical essay on class and manners in inter-war Britain."^[1] It was produced by Transatlantic Film Corporation and British & Dominions Film Corporation.

Synopsis

This film is a farce about the romantic adventures of two young men with women of differing social backgrounds and the revelation of their true worth.^[2]

Cast

Jean Gillie as Bubbles Thompson
Enid Stamp Taylor as Lady Cattering
Romilly Lunge as Neville Hammond
Mackenzie Ward as Jerry Hammond
Athole Stewart as Colonel Hammond
Ellis Jeffreys as Mrs. Hammond
Davy Burnaby as Lord Cattering
William Hartnell as George
Wally Patch as Taxi Driver
Ronald Shiner as the Mechanic^[3]

References

↑ Time Out Film Guide, Penguin Books London, 1989, p.652 ISBN 0-14-012700-3
↑ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/57833
↑ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/57833?view=cast

External links

While Parents Sleep at AllMovie
While Parents Sleep at the British Film Institute's Film and TV Database
While Parents Sleep at the Internet Movie Database

The films of Adrian Brunel

The Cost of a Kiss (1917)
The Man Without Desire (1923)
Lovers in Araby (1924)
Blighty (1927)
The Constant Nymph (1928)
The Vortex (1928)
A Light Woman (1928)
The Crooked Billet (1929)
Taxi to Paradise (1933)
Two Wives for Henry (1933)
The Laughter of Fools (1933)
I'm an Explosive (1933)
Follow the Lady (1933)
Important People (1934)
Badger's Green (1934)
Menace (1934)
Variety (1935)
Vanity (1935)
City of Beautiful Nonsense (1935)
Cross Currents (1935)
While Parents Sleep (1935)
The Invader (1935)
Prison Breaker (1936)
Love at Sea (1936)
The Rebel Son (1938)
The Lion Has Wings (1939)
The Girl Who Forgot (1940)

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