Sporting Love (film)

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Sporting Love
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Directed by J. Elder Wills
Written byStanley Lupino (play)
Ingram D'Abbes
Fenn Sherie
Produced byHenry Passmore
Starring Stanley Lupino
Laddie Cliff
Lu Ann Meredith
Cinematography Eric Cross
Edited by Hugh Stewart
Music by Billy Mayerl
Eric Ansell
Jack Beaver
Production
company
Distributed by British Lion Film Corporation
Release date
  • 24 May 1936 (1936-05-24)
Running time
67 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Sporting Love is a 1936 British musical comedy film directed by J. Elder Wills and starring Stanley Lupino, Laddie Cliff and Lu Ann Meredith. It was made at Beaconsfield Studios. [1] It was based on the musical Sporting Love which Stanley Lupino had written and starred in. Lupino had broken with British International Pictures to make a couple of independent films, but after this he returned to BIP.

Contents

Plot

Two brothers in a continual trough of financial depression try to tackle their money problems.

Cast

Critical reception

In 1940, Pathescope Monthly called it "A lively comedy you will enjoy!" [2]

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References

  1. Wood p.92
  2. "SPORTING LOVE". www.pathefilm.uk.

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