Olympic Honeymoon

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Olympic Honeymoon
Directed by Alf Goulding
Written by Monty Banks
Joan Morgan
Alf Goulding (Screen scenario)
Warren Chetham Strode (Dialogue)
Based onnovel He and Ski by F. Dawson Gratrix
Produced by Sidney Morgan
Starring Claude Hulbert
Monty Banks
Princess Pearl
Cinematography Ernest Palmer
Edited byVladimir Sagovsky
Music byVan Phillips (musical director)
Production
companies
London Screen Plays Productions
Fanfare Pictures
Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures (UK)
Release date
  • 22 June 1940 (1940-06-22)(UK)
Running time
63 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Olympic Honeymoon is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Alfred J. Goulding and starring Claude Hulbert, Monty Banks and Princess Pearl. [1] It was based on the novel He and Ski by F. Dawson Gratrix and is sometimes known by the alternative title Honeymoon Merry-Go-Round. [2]

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Plot

A British honeymooner visiting Switzerland is mistaken for a leading ice hockey player and is enlisted to play for the England national team.

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References

  1. "Honeymoon Merry-go-round (1940)". Archived from the original on 14 January 2009.
  2. Goble, Alan (1 January 1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN   9783110951943 via Google Books.