Home | Movies By Year | Movies from 1935


Vintage Wine

Buy Vintage Wine now from Amazon

First, read the Wikipedia article. Then, scroll down to see what other TopShelfReviews readers thought about the movie. And once you've experienced the movie, tell everyone what you thought about it.

Wikipedia article




'Vintage Wine' is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Seymour Hicks, Claire Luce, Eva Moore and Judy Gunn.'[https://web.archive.org/web/20090116055022/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/56730 Vintage Wine]' at British Film Institute The film was made at Julius Hagen's Twickenham Studios, but was released by Gaumont British Distributors which was the largest British film company at the time. The film was loosely based on a German play by Alexander Engels, which also formed the basis of the 1934 West End comedy by Ashley Dukes and Seymour Hicks.

Synopsis



The members of the Popinot family of French champagne tycoons suspect that the widowed head of the family Charles Popinot is keeping a mistress in Rome and generally living a wild life. Unbeknownst to them he has happily re-married and had a son with a much younger woman. She believes he is twenty years younger than he really is and is shocked when his relatives including his mother, grown-up sons and granddaughter arrive in Italy.

Cast



* Seymour Hicks as Charles Popinot

* Claire Luce as Nina Popinot

* Eva Moore as Josephine Popinot

* Judy Gunn as Blanche Popinot

* Miles Malleson as Henri Popinot

* Kynaston Reeves as Benedict Popinot

* Michael Shepley as Richard Emsley

* A. Bromley Davenport as Pierre

* Amy Brandon Thomas as Minor role

* Elisabeth Croft as Minor role

* Kathleen Weston as Family Member.

References





Bibliography



*Low, Rachael. 'Filmmaking in 1930s Britain'. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.

*Wood, Linda. 'British Films, 19271939'. British Film Institute, 1986.


Buy Vintage Wine now from Amazon

<-- Return to movies from 1935



This work is released under CC-BY-SA. Some or all of this content attributed to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1108302794.