Spring Handicap

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Spring Handicap
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Directed by Herbert Brenon
Written byErnest E. Bryan (play)
William Freshman
Elizabeth Meehan
Produced by Walter C. Mycroft
Starring Will Fyffe
Maire O'Neill
Billy Milton
Aileen Marson
Cinematography Otto Kanturek
Edited byLionel Tomlinson
Production
company
Distributed by Associated British Film Distributors
Release date
  • May 1937 (1937-05) [1]
Running time
69 minutes [2]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Spring Handicap is a 1937 British comedy film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Will Fyffe, Maire O'Neill and Billy Milton. [3] The film was made by the Associated British Picture Corporation at their Elstree Studios and based on the play The Last Coupon by Ernest E. Bryan.

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Premise

A wife tries to prevent her husband, a miner, from gambling away the money he receives as an inheritance.

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References

  1. Low p.390
  2. Chibnall p.297
  3. "Spring Handicap". BFI. Archived from the original on 11 July 2012.

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