Old Spanish Customers

Old Spanish Customers
Directed by	Lupino Lane
Written by	Scenario: Syd Courtenay Frank Launder Edwin Greenwood
Based on	story by Syd Courtenay & Lola Harvey
Produced by	John Maxwell
Starring	Leslie Fuller Drusilla Wills Binnie Barnes
Cinematography	Walter Harvey Stanley Rodwell
Edited by	E.B. Jarvis
Music by	Musical direction: Idris Lewis
Production company	British International Pictures
Distributed by	Wardour Films (UK)
Release date	15 September 1932 (1932-09-15)
Running time	67 minutes [1]
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Old Spanish Customers is a 1932 British comedy film directed by Lupino Lane and starring Leslie Fuller, Binnie Barnes and Drusilla Wills. ^[2] It was also known as Toreadors Don't Care. Val Guest has a small role; he later called the film "a terrible thing". ^[3]

Plot

British couple Bill and Martha (Leslie Fuller and Drusilla Wills) win a trip to Spain and enjoy a series of adventures, with henpecked Bill mistaken for a famous toreador and ending up in a bullfight.

Cast

• Leslie Fuller as Bill Smithers
• Drusilla Wills as Martha Smithers
• Binnie Barnes as Carmen
• Wallace Lupino as Pedro
• Hal Gordon as Manuelito
• Ernest Sefton as Tormitio
• Hal Walters as Dancing partner
• Betty Fields

Critical reception

TV Guide noted "A formula plot which delivers predictable results," and gave the film two out of five stars ^[4]

References

1. "BRITISH COMEDIES OF THE 1930S VOLUME 6 - British Board of Film Classification". www.bbfc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 22 January 2018.
2. BFI.org
3. Fowler, Roy (1988). "Interview with Val Guest". British Entertainment History Project.
4. "Old Spanish Customers". TVGuide.com.

Bibliography

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

External links

• Old Spanish Customers at IMDb