The Private Secretary (film)
6.8 /10 1 Votes
Director Henry Edwards Cinematography Sydney Blythe Duration Country United Kingdom | 6.6/10 IMDb Genre Comedy Produced by Julius Hagen Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writer George Broadhurst , H. Fowler Mear Release date September 1935 (UK) Based on The farce by Charles Hawtrey (The Private Secretary) and the book by Von Moser (Der Bibliotheker) Cast Judy Gunn , Edward Everett Horton , Oscar Asche , Barry MacKay , Alastair Sim Similar movies Scrooge (1935), East Is East (1916), Chu Chin Chow (1934), Silver Blaze (1937), I Lived with You (1933) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Private Secretary is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Edward Everett Horton, Barry MacKay, Judy Gunn and Oscar Asche. It is an adaptation of the play The Private Secretary by Charles Henry Hawtrey.
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Plot
Wealthy Englishman Robert Cattermole returns from a trip to India to discover that instead of achieving success, his beloved nephew Robert has got into such debt that he now disguises himself as a mild-mannered minister to evade his creditors.
Cast
Critical reeption
TV Guide felt the comedy of the Victorian farce "didnt translate well into later times. Horton and Sim (in a secondary role) serve as the films saving graces with some nice comic moments" and Sky Movies agreed, calling the film "a mostly dismal British farce stickily directed by former acting superstar Henry Edwards, but held back from disaster by the pawkily amusing performances of Edward Everett Horton, dithering delightfully in the leading role, and Alastair Sim, offering a lugubrious contribution as Mr Nebulae."
References
The Private Secretary (film) WikipediaThe Private Secretary (film) IMDb