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The Laughter of Fools

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Cinematography
  
Eric Cross

Duration
  

Country
  
United Kingdom

Director
  
Adrian Brunel

Genre
  
Drama

Language
  
English

Writer
  
H. F. Maltby
,
Adrian Brunel
,
Reginald Beck

Release date
  
October 1933

Cast
  
Derrick De Marney, Eliot Makeham, D. A. Clarke-Smith, Helen Ferrers

Similar movies
  
The Lion Has Wings (1939), The Dark Man (1951), Chance of a Lifetime (1951), Ill Get You (1952), Christmas Under Fire (1941)

The Laughter of Fools is a 1933 British drama film directed by Adrian Brunel and starring D. A. Clarke-Smith, Derrick De Marney and Helen Ferrers. It was based on a play by H. F. Maltby. The screenplay concerns an ambitious mother who plans to marry her daughter to a sea captain.

The film was a quota quickie made at Nettlefold Studios in Walton by the independent producer George Smith as part of a contract from Fox who needed a supply of films to distribute in order to comply with the terms of the quota.

Cast

  • D. A. Clarke-Smith as Plunket
  • Derrick De Marney as Captain Vidal
  • Helen Ferrers as Mrs. Gregg
  • Eliot Makeham as John Gregg
  • Granville Ferrier as Hughes Sr.
  • Pat Paterson as Doris Gregg
  • Minnie Taylor as Elizabeth
  • George Thirlwell as Bertie Gregg
  • Dorothy Vernon as Cook
  • Fred Withers as Nuttall

    • References

    The Laughter of Fools Wikipedia
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    The Laughter of Fools IMDb