Cross Currents (film)

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Cross Currents
Directed by	Adrian Brunel
Produced by	Anthony Havelock-Allan
Written by	Gerald Elliott (novel) Leigh Aman Adrian Brunel
Starring	Ian Colin Marjorie Hume Evelyn Foster Frank Birch
Cinematography	Francis Carver
Production company	British & Dominions Film Corporation
Distributed by	Paramount British Pictures
Release dates	July 1935
Running time	68 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Cross Currents is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Adrian Brunel and starring Ian Colin, Marjorie Hume and Evelyn Foster. The film was made as a quota quickie supporting feature, for distribution by Paramount to allow them to meet the annual quota established by the British government. Much of the film was shot on location in Cornwall.^[1]

A Devon Vicar mistakenly comes under suspicion of murdering a rival in love. It was based on the novel Nine Days Blunder by Gerald Elliott.

Cast

Ian Colin as Tony Brocklehurst
Marjorie Hume as Mrs. Stepping-Drayton
Evelyn Foster as Margery Weston
Frank Birch as Rev. Eustace Hickling
Aubrey Mallalieu as Gen. Trumpington
Kate Saxon as Miss Cruickshank
Aubrey Dexter as Colonel Bagge-Grant
Bryan Powley as Cmdr. Mannering
Sally Gray as Sally Croker

References

↑ Chibnall p.45

Bibliography

Chibnall, Steve. Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' film. British Film Institute, 2007.
Low, Rachael. History of the British Film: Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985 .

External links

Cross Currents at the Internet Movie Database

The films of Adrian Brunel

The Cost of a Kiss (1917)
The Man Without Desire (1923)
Lovers in Araby (1924)
Blighty (1927)
The Constant Nymph (1928)
The Vortex (1928)
A Light Woman (1928)
The Crooked Billet (1929)
Taxi to Paradise (1933)
Two Wives for Henry (1933)
The Laughter of Fools (1933)
I'm an Explosive (1933)
Follow the Lady (1933)
Important People (1934)
Badger's Green (1934)
Menace (1934)
Variety (1935)
Vanity (1935)
City of Beautiful Nonsense (1935)
Cross Currents (1935)
While Parents Sleep (1935)
The Invader (1935)
Prison Breaker (1936)
Love at Sea (1936)
The Rebel Son (1938)
The Lion Has Wings (1939)
The Girl Who Forgot (1940)

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