The film is set on the French Riviera where two hard-living British spongers become mixed up in illegal gambling and a scam in which wealthy gamblers' jewels are replaced with fakes.[2][3]
Ben Travers wrote various stage farces that had been filmed, but this was an original script. Filming took place in August 1935.[4]
Travers said the original title of the screenplay was Foreign Affairs and "it was typical of British film mentality that, without my being consulted, it was renamed Foreign Affaires. The movie provided aan early film role for Mervyn Johns who Travers said "so completely stole his one scene with Tom and Ralph that his part was almost completely cut out of the finally-edited version. But I am always pleased to have given Mervyn his first job in the pictures."[5]
Reception
Variety called it "an agreeable vehicle for the buffooneries of Tom Walls and Ralph Lynn, which hitherto have been more acceptable for local taste than further afield. In this instance the appeal should be more extensive. There is a refreshing toning-down, less of Walls’ leerful eye and Lynn’s crass idiocy. Whole thing is more natural, and the ensuing events are feasible for a change without undue strain on credulity."[6]
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