Department Store

• Director: Leslie Hiscott
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Crime
• Release Year: 1935
• Country: UK
• Run Time: 65 minutes

Plot

Actress Geraldine Fitzgerald once complained that the sum total of her dialogue during her ingenue days was a petulant "But, Daddy, it's my birthday." Fitgerald is spared this line in the British Department Store, though this doesn't mean that the film is cliché-free. The story involves a crooked store manager who mistakenly hires an ex-convict thinking he is the son of the store owner. When the ex-con becomes privy to the manager's perfidy, he dare not say anything, lest he be accused of criminal activity. How our hero solves his dilemma forms the climax of this 65-minute quota quickie. Department Store was reissued, ill-advisedly, as Bargain Basement. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Geraldine Fitzgerald - Jane Grey; Eve Gray - Dolly Flint; Henry Hallatt - Mr. Buxton; Garry Marsh - Timothy Bradbury; Jack Melford - Bob Goodman; Sebastian Shaw - John Goodman Johnson; Hal Walters - Sam Slack; Patric Curwen - James Goodman

Credit

Leslie Hiscott - Director, William Luff - Cinematographer, Julius Hagen - Producer, H.F. Maltby - Screen Story, H. Fowler Mear - Screenwriter

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