Tropical Trouble

1936 film
  • Vernon Harris
  • Stephen King-Hall (novel)
Produced byBasil HumphrysStarring
  • Douglass Montgomery
  • Betty Ann Davies
  • Alfred Drayton
CinematographyGeoffrey FaithfullMusic byEric Spear
Production
company
City Film Corporation
Distributed byGeneral Film Distributors
Release date
  • October 1936 (1936-10)
Running time
70 minutesCountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglish

Tropical Trouble is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Harry Hughes and starring Douglass Montgomery, Betty Ann Davies and Alfred Drayton.[1] It was based on the novel Bunga-Bunga by Stephen King-Hall. A series of misunderstandings leads to a colonial governor's wife suspecting him of an affair with his assistant.

It was shot at Walton Studios.[2]

Plot

Cast

  • Douglass Montgomery as George Masterman
  • Betty Ann Davies as Mary Masterman
  • Alfred Drayton as Sir Monagu Thumpeter
  • Natalie Hall as Louise van der Houten
  • Sybil Grove as Lady Thumpeter
  • Victor Stanley as Albert
  • Gerald Barry as Sir Pomfrey Pogglethwaite
  • Morris Harvey as Chief of the Bungs
  • Marie Ault as Nonnie
  • Vernon Harris as Martindale

References

  1. ^ BFI.org
  2. ^ Wood p.88

Bibliography

  • Sutton, David R. A chorus of raspberries: British film comedy 1929-1939. University of Exeter Press, 2000.

External links

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