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Bookmark this pageFalling For You (1933)
Director: Robert Stevenson, Jack Hulbert
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From Time Out Film Guide
Patchy vehicle for West End revue darlings Courtneidge and Hulbert. As rival journalists on the trail of Ruritanian heiress Desni, they tangle with haunted castles, irate editors, runaway sleighs, a ghost called Stephen and a villain called Sausage. Hulbert's snow and ice slapstick is embarrassingly unfunny, but the film is saved by the bit-part players and the exuberantly inventive Courtneidge. Disguised as a twitching rabbit-toothed hypochondriac, as 'onest, affable and 'elpful ladies 'elp Hettie Bartholomew, and finally as a kangaroo leading her bemused adversaries in a chorus of 'Why Has a Cow Got Four Legs?', she is absurdly magnificent.Author: RMy
Cast & crew
Director: Robert Stevenson, Jack Hulbert
Producer: Michael Balcon
Cast: Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge, Tamara Desni, Garry Marsh, Alfred Drayton, OB Clarence full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 78 mins
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