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'The Five Pound Man' is a 1937 British comedy crime film directed by Albert Parker and starring Judy Gunn, Edwin Styles and Charles Bannister.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090115093637/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/33354 BFI.org] It was made at Wembley Studios as a quota quickie by the British subsidiary of 20th Century Fox.Chibnall p.294

Cast



* Judy Gunn as Margaret Fenton

* Edwin Styles as Richard Fordyce

* Frank Allenby as Claud Fenton

* Charles Bannister as Eustace Grant

* Esma Cannon as Lucy

* G. H. Mulcaster as Sinclair

References



Bibliography



* Chibnall, Steve. 'Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' Film'. British Film Institute, 2007.

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

* Wood, Linda. 'British Films, 1927-1939'. British Film Institute, 1986.


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