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 Peter 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 date	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)

Films produced by Michael Balcon
1920s	The Rat (1925) The Sea Urchin (1926) The Triumph of the Rat (1926) The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1926) The Mountain Eagle (1926) Blighty (1927) Downhill (1927) The Rolling Road (1927) Easy Virtue (1927) One of the Best (1927) The Vortex (1927) A South Sea Bubble (1928) A Light Woman (1928) The First Born (1928) The Wrecker (1929) The Return of the Rat (1929) City of Play (1929) Taxi for Two (1929) Woman to Woman (1929)
1930s	Jack's the Boy (1932) I Was a Spy (1933) It's a Boy (1933) Friday the Thirteenth (1933) Princess Charming (1934) Evergreen (1934) Red Ensign (1934) Along Came Sally (1934) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) Car of Dreams (1935) First a Girl (1935) Me and Marlborough (1935) The 39 Steps (1935) Stormy Weather (1935) Things Are Looking Up (1935) The First Offence (1936) Tudor Rose (1936) The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936) Secret Agent (1936) Where There's a Will (1936) Windbag the Sailor (1936) Doctor Syn (1937) A Yank at Oxford (1938) The Gaunt Stranger (1938) The Four Just Men (1939) Cheer Boys Cheer (1939)
1940s	Let George Do It! (1940) The Proud Valley (1940) The Ghost of St. Michael's (1941) Ships with Wings (1941) Turned Out Nice Again (1941) The Big Blockade (1942) Went the Day Well? (1942) The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942) My Learned Friend (1943) The Foreman Went to France (1942) Undercover (1943) The Bells Go Down (1943) San Demetrio London (1943) Nine Men (1943) For Those in Peril (1944) Champagne Charlie (1944) The Halfway House (1944) Fiddlers Three (1944) Dead of Night (1945) Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945) They Came to a City (1945) Johnny Frenchman (1945) The Captive Heart (1946) The Overlanders (1946) Hue and Cry (1947) It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) The Loves of Joanna Godden (1947) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947) Frieda (1947) Against the Wind (1948) Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948) Scott of the Antarctic (1948) Passport to Pimlico (1949) Whisky Galore! (1949) A Run for Your Money (1949) Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
1950s and 1960s	Cage of Gold (1950) The Blue Lamp (1950) The Magnet (1950) The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) Pool of London (1951) The Man in the White Suit (1951) Mandy (1952) The Cruel Sea (1953) The Maggie (1954) The Night My Number Came Up (1955) Touch and Go (1955) The Ladykillers (1955) The Long Arm (1956) Barnacle Bill (1957) The Man in the Sky (1957) The Shiralee (1957) Dunkirk (1958) The Siege of Pinchgut (1959) The Scapegoat (1959) The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961)

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