The Amateur Gentleman (1936)
April 26, 1936Release Date
Plot.
A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn, who happen to be members of English royalty. The old man is arrested and thrown in prison. His son, knowing that his father didn't steal the watch and suspecting a frame-up, follows the royal party to London, where he poses as a wealthy "gentleman" and insinuates himself into the English court in an effort to find out who framed his father and why.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
John Beverley aka Barnabas Barty
Elissa Landi
Lady Cleone Meredith
Gordon Harker
Natty Bell
Hugh Williams
Lord Ronald Meredith
Basil Sydney
Louis Chichester
Irene Browne
Lady Huntstanton
Thornton Freeland
Director
Athole Stewart
Marquess of Comberhurst
Clemence Dane
Writer
Jeffery Farnol
Writer
Coral Browne
Pauline Darville
Margaret Lockwood
Georgina Huntstanton
Edward Knoblock
Writer
Sergei Nolbandov
Writer
Esme Percy
John Townsend
Frank Bertram
Belcher
Marcel Hellman
Producer
Gilbert Davis
Prince Regent
Frank Pettingell
John Barty
June Duprez
Bit Part (uncredited)
Marius Goring
Bit Part (uncredited)
John Singer
Boy (uncredited)
Olga Edwardes
Maid at Inn (uncredited)
Frank Atkinson
Law Enforcer (uncredited)
Günther Krampf
Director of Photography
Richard Addinsell
Music
Conrad von Molo
Editor
Walter Goehr
Music
Edward Carrick
Art Direction
Peggy Gick
Assistant Art Director
Quentin Tod
Choreographer
B.J. Simmons
Costume Design
W.H. Clark
Sound Recordist
Media.
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Wiki.
The Amateur Gentleman is a 1936 British drama film directed by Thornton Freeland and starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Elissa Landi, Gordon Harker and Margaret Lockwood, with music by Richard Addinsell. It is based on the 1913 novel The Amateur Gentleman by Jeffery Farnol. In an effort to prove his father's innocence of a charge of stealing, a young man disguises himself as a gentleman and travels to Regency London.It was made at Elstree Studios with sets designed by Edward Carrick. The story was previously filmed in the silent era in Britain The Amateur Gentleman and in Hollywood as The Amateur Gentleman 1926 with Richard Barthelmess.