Bracelets (film)

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Bracelets
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Directed by Sewell Collins
Written bySewell Collins (play and screenplay)
Produced by L'Estrange Fawcett
Starring Bert Coote
Joyce Kennedy
Harold Huth
Cinematography Percy Strong
Production
company
Distributed by Gaumont British Distributors
Release date
  • February 1931 (1931-02)
Running time
50 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
Language English

Bracelets is a 1931 British crime film directed by Sewell Collins and starring Bert Coote, Joyce Kennedy and Harold Huth. [1] It was written by Collins from his stage play.

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Plot

Jeweller Edwin Hobbett is targeted by confidence tricksters pretending to be connected with the exiled Russian Royal Family. He manages to turn the tables on them, and, after collecting the reward for their arrest, uses the money to buy silver bracelets for his wife to celebrate their wedding anniversary.

Cast

Production

The film was made as a second feature by the Gaumont British Picture Corporation [2] and filmed at the Lime Grove Studios in Shepherd's Bush with sets designed by the art director Andrew Mazzei.

Reception

Film Weekly wrote: "Bert Coote stumbles magnificently through the story as a jeweller. He is just muddle-headed enough and, like the true comedian he is, never forgets to be pathetic, even when he is being humorous." [3]

Kine Weekly wrote: "The well-known stage comedian, Bert Coote, scores a big success in this, his first starring role. It is an amusing crook comedy, well characterised and well directed." [4]

The Daily Film Renter wrote: "Bert Coote's well-known dreaminess-cum-hesitant-muddle-headedness-cum-gaucherie, which he has popularised in his music-hall sketches, is brought to the screen in this new Gaumont-British production. He is starred in a story which enables him to do all those things that audiences expect him to do – and the result is a comedy film which, though on the quiet side, will make a distinctly favourable impression." [5]

References

  1. ↑ "Bracelets". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 13 February 2026.
  2. ↑ Chibnall, Steve (2007). Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' Film. British Film Institute. p. 263. ISBN   978-1844571550.
  3. ↑ "Bracelets". Film Weekly . 5 (141): 29-30. 27 June 1931. ProQuest   1705119369.
  4. ↑ "Bracelets". Kine Weekly . 168 (1242): 43. 5 February 1931. ProQuest   2322701668.
  5. ↑ "Bracelets". The Daily Film Renter (1241): 4. 31 January 1931. ProQuest   2600929033.
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