The Amateur Gentleman (1936)
1h 42m
Running Time
April 26, 1936Release Date
The Amateur Gentleman (1936)
1h 42m
Running Time
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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Cast & Crew.

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
John Beverley aka Barnabas Barty / Producer

Elissa Landi
Lady Cleone Meredith

Gordon Harker
Natty Bell

Basil Sydney
Louis Chichester

Hugh Williams
Lord Ronald Meredith

Irene Browne
Lady Huntstanton

Athole Stewart
Marquess of Comberhurst

Coral Browne
Pauline Darville

Margaret Lockwood
Georgina Huntstanton

Esme Percy
John Townsend

Frank Bertram
Belcher

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)

Thornton Freeland
Director

Jeffery Farnol
Novel

Clemence Dane
Adaptation

Sergei Nolbandov
Adaptation / Production Manager

Marcel Hellman
Producer

Richard Addinsell
Music

Walter Goehr
Music

Günther Krampf
Director of Photography

Conrad von Molo
Editor

Edward Carrick
Art Direction

B.J. Simmons
Costume Design

Peggy Gick
Assistant Art Director

W.H. Clark
Sound Recordist

Quentin Tod
Choreographer
Media.

Details.
This Movie Is About.
innkeeper
boxing champion
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.
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