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We're Going to Be Rich
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Wikipedia article
'We're Going to Be Rich' is a 1938 British historical musical comedy film directed by Monty Banks and starring Gracie Fields, Victor McLaglen and Brian Donlevy.
Plot
During the 1880s Kit Dobson, an English music hall singer performing in Australia, has scraped together enough money to buy a passage home to Britain with plans to settle down. However, unknown to her, her unreliable boyfriend has used most of the money to buy a gold mine in South Africa. They arrive in Gold Rush Johannesburg only to find that they have been swindled. The only option left for them is for Kit to seek a job singing in a saloon run by an American known as Yankee Gordon.
Cast
* Gracie Fields as Kit Dobson
* Victor McLaglen as Dobbie
* Brian Donlevy as Yankee Gordon
* Coral Browne as Pearl
* Ted Smith as Tim
* Gus McNaughton as Broderick
* Charles Carson as Keeler
* Syd Crossley as Jake
* Hal Gordon as Charlie
* Robert Nainby as Judge
* Charles Harrison as Rat Face
* Tom Payne as Kinch
* Don McCorkindale as Killer
* Joe Mott as Manager
* Alex Davies as Kimberley Kid
Production
The film was the first made following Fields switch from Ealing Studios to 20th Century Fox. It was shot at Denham Studios.Wood p.97 It was made with a budget of $500,000.[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WIZwZOz8LHsC&pg=PA212&lpg=PA212&dq=aubrey+solomon+20th+century+fox&source=bl&ots=FKmAn2szCi&sig=b7skIRQNZ1P88Dic6zd6VYPfHFU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjUmaSf4t3NAhVRxWMKHb_lAFUQ6AEINDAF#v=onepage&q=aubrey%20solomon%2020th%20century%20fox&f=false Aubrey Solomon, 'Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History' Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 240]
References
Bibliography
* Low, Rachael. 'Filmmaking in 1930s Britain'. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
* Wood, Linda. 'British Films, 1927-1939'. British Film Institute, 1986.
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