Yes, Mr Brown

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Yes Mr Brown
"Yes, Mr Brown" (1933).jpg
Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Written by Douglas Furber
Based onstage musical Geschäft mit Amerika
by Paul Franck and Ludwig Hirschfeld
Produced byHerbert Wilcox
Starring Jack Buchanan
Hartley Power
Elsie Randolph
Margot Grahame
Production
company
Distributed by United Artists (US)
Release date
  • January 1933 (1933-1)(London)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Yes, Mr Brown is a 1933 British musical comedy film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Jack Buchanan, Hartley Power, Elsie Randolph and Margot Grahame. [1] [2] It was written by Douglas Furber based on the stage musical Geschäft mit Amerika' by Paul Franck and Ludwig Hirschfeld.

Contents

Yes, Mr. Brown is missing from the BFI National Archive, and is listed as one of the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" lost films. [3]

Plot

According to KIne Weekly : "Nicholas Baumann, manager of a Viennese branch of an American manufacturing concern, sets out to impress his employer, Mr Brown, who is new to the city. He arranges a dinner party, but quarrels with his wife, Clary, over her dog, and she leaves their flat in a huff. He then induces his secretary, Anne Weber, to act in Clary's stead, and the complications, worked out in a night club, lead to good fun before Nicholas' explanations are accepted by Mr Brown, and he earns a coveted partnership." [4]

Cast

Reception

Kine Weekly wrote: "Farcical comedy with music, elegantly presented and tuneful in its score. Although a trifle slow in action, the picture panders good humouredly to popular taste, and provides capital light diversion. A profitable booking through the untiring efforts and gay versatility of Jack Buchanan, whose wide popularity is of definite box office value" [4]

According to the Idaho Falls Post Register , the film was "gay catchy...entertainment with plenty of light comedy". [5]

Variety wrote: "'A generous production, directed in good taste, marred occasionally by defective lighting, but not enough to interfere with the fact that it is another successful British film." [6]

Other film versions

References

  1. ↑ "Yes, Mr Brown". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 16 March 2025.
  2. ↑ "Yes Mr. Brown (1933)". British Film Institute. 16 April 2009. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
  3. ↑ "Yes Mr Brown / BFI Most Wanted". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012.
  4. 1 2 "Yes, Mr Brown". Kine Weekly . 191 (1345): 17. 26 January 1933. ProQuest   2339779123.
  5. ↑ Idaho Falls Post Register 5 August 1934 "News of the Screen as Idaho Falls Theaters Play It" p.3
  6. ↑ "Yes, Mr Brown". Variety . 109 (9): 13. 7 February 1933. ProQuest   1529026076.
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