Main Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Luli Deste, Nigel Bruce, Constance Collier, Ralph Richardson
Release Year: 1937
Country: UK
Run Time: 85 minutes
Plot
In this satire of British-American relations, Edward G. Robinson stars as Dan Armstrong, a hard-sell American saleman whose company sends him to England to learn how to tone down his act. There he meets some distant relatives, the aristocrats Sir Peter and Lady Challoner (Arthur Wontner and Annie Esmond). They invite him to their mansion for the weekend, where among the house guests are the penniless aristocrats the Duke and Duchess of Glenavon (Nigel Bruce and Constance Collier) and their daughter Lady Patricia (Luli Deste), as well as a conniving stockbroker, Henry Graham Manningdale (Ralph Richardson). The Duke and Duchess own only an apparently worthless mine in Rhodesia that supposedly contains a metal called magnelite. Manningdale says that he will develop the mine in exchange for permission to marry Lady Patricia. Armstrong also has designs on Patricia, however, and he engineers a scheme to start a company and sell stock in the mine. ~ Michael Betzold, All Movie Guide
Annie Esmond - Lady Challoner; Arthur Wontner - Sir Peter Challoner; Elizabeth Inglis - Dolly; Cyril Raymond - James; Nancy Burne - Edna; Billy Bray - Bill; James Carew - Snyderling; Everley Gregg - Millie; Terence de Marney - Reporter; Roland Drew - Frank; Elliott Nugent - Casey
Credit
Marion Gering - Director, Arthur D. Hilton - Editor, Miklos Rozsa - Composer (Music Score), Alfred Gilks - Cinematographer, Akos Tolnay - Producer, Alexander Esway - Producer, Aben Kandel - Screenwriter, Robert E. Sherwood - Screenwriter, Akos Tolnay - Screenwriter, Walter Hackett - Screenwriter
