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Initial release
  
February 1935

Running time
  
59 minutes

Duration
  

Director
  
Manning Haynes

Genre
  
Comedy

Writer
  
James Darnley (play), Ernie Lotinga (adaptation), Herbert Sargent (screenplay), Con West (screenplay)

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Smiths Wives is a 1935 British comedy film directed by H. Manning Haynes and starring Ernie Lotinga, Beryl de Querton and Tyrell Davis. A farcial situation occurs when a vicar and a bookmaker with the same surname are mistaken for each other. It was based on the play Facing the Music by James Darnley. It was Lotingas only film in which he didnt play his trademark character Jimmy Josser.

Contents

Cast

  • Ernie Lotinga - Jimmy Smith
  • Beryl de Querton - Norah Smith
  • Tyrell Davis - Dick Desmond
  • Richard Ritchie - Reverend James Smith
  • Kay Walsh - Mabel Smith
  • Jean Gillie - Anne
  • Vashti Taylor - Dierdre Fotheringay

    • Bibliography

  • Sutton, David R. A chorus of raspberries: British film comedy 1929-1939. University of Exeter Press, 2000.

    • References

    Smiths Wives Wikipedia
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