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Genre
  
Comedy

Duration
  

Language
  
English

Director
  
Monty Banks

Screenplay
  
Fred Duprez

Country
  
United Kingdom

The Wifes Family movie poster
Release date
  
3 June 1931 (London) (UK)

Based on
  
the play by Fred Duprez (from an original story by Harry B. Linton and Hal Stephens)

Writer
  
Fred Duprez, Fred Duprez

Initial release
  
June 3, 1931 (United Kingdom)

People also search for
  
Voi meita! Anoppi tulee, My Wifes Family

Story by
  
Val Valentine, Fred Duprez, Hal Stephens, Harry B. Linton

Cast
  
Gene Gerrard
(Jack Gay),
Monty Banks
,
Amy Veness
(Arabella Nagg),
Muriel Angelus
(Peggy Gay),
Tom Hel
(Willie Nagg)

The Wife's Family (also released as My Wife's Family) is a 1931 British comedy film directed by Monty Banks and starring Gene Gerrard, Muriel Angelus, and Amy Veness. It was based on the popular stage farce by Fred Duprez. The play was subsequently filmed a further four times: in a Swedish version Svärmor kommer, in 1932; a 1933 Finnish film Voi meitä! Anoppi tulee; and British remakes in 1941 and 1956.

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Poster taglines: "His Mother-in-law wasn't born--she was quarried out of solid granite and could lick her weight in wildcats!"
"An inside comedy of the in-laws-the in-bads and all but ingratitude!"

Plot

Farcical confusions ensue when newlywed bride Peggy Gay overhears her husband Jack discussing the purchase of a piano, and somehow interprets what he has said to mean he is the father of an illegitimate child.

Cast

  • Jack Gay - Gene Gerrard
  • Peggy Gay - Muriel Angelus
  • Anabella Nagg - Amy Veness
  • Noah Nagg - Charles Paton
  • Ima Nagg - Dodo Watts
  • Willy Nagg - Tom Helmore
  • Doc Knott - Jimmy Godden
  • Sally - Molly Lamont
  • Dolly White - Ellen Pollock

    • Critical reception

  • Allmovie wrote, "the level of humor can be assessed by the fact that the hero's unbearable mother-in-law is named Arabella Nagg."
  • Tasmania's The Advocate wrote in 1931, "this big talkie has been described as "Britain's Cyclone of Merriment," and packed houses have greeted it everywhere. "My Wife's Family" can hardly be included in the category of "comedies." Perhaps "super-comedy" would be an applicable term to describe the film's side-splitting qualities, but better still it would be safe to say that "My Wife's Family" has more laughs than "Rookery Nook" and "The Middle Watch" put together."

    • References

    The Wife's Family Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    The Wifes Family IMDb