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The Laughter of Fools
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Wikipedia article
'The Laughter of Fools' is a 1933 British drama film directed by Adrian Brunel and starring D. A. Clarke-Smith, Derrick De Marney and Helen Ferrers. It was based on a play by H. F. Maltby. The screenplay concerns an ambitious mother who plans to marry her daughter to a sea captain.
The film was a quota quickie made at Nettlefold Studios in Walton by the independent producer George Smith as part of a contract from Fox who needed a supply of films to distribute in order to comply with the terms of the quota.
Cast
* D. A. Clarke-Smith as Plunket
* Derrick De Marney as Captain Vidal
* Helen Ferrers as Mrs. Gregg
* Eliot Makeham as John Gregg
* Granville Ferrier as Hughes Sr.
* Pat Paterson as Doris Gregg
* Minnie Taylor as Elizabeth
* George Thirlwell as Bertie Gregg
* Dorothy Vernon as Cook
* Fred Withers as Nuttall
Bibliography
* Chibnall, Steve. 'Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' film'. British Film Institute, 2007.
* Low, Rachael. 'History of the British Film: Filmmaking in 1930s Britain'. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
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