Road House (1934 film)

Road House
Directed by	Maurice Elvey
Produced by	Michael Balcon Jerome Jackson
Written by	Walter C. Hackett (play) Leslie Arliss Austin Melford
Starring	Violet Loraine Gordon Harker Aileen Marson Emlyn Williams
Music by	Bretton Byrd
Cinematography	Leslie Rowson
Edited by	Paul Capon
Production company	Gaumont British
Distributed by	Gaumont British Distributors
Release dates	29 November 1934
Running time	76 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Road House is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker and Aileen Marson.

Production

The film is based on the 1932 play Road House by Walter C. Hackett.^[1] It was made by British Gaumont at the Lime Grove Studios in Shepherd's Bush, with shooting beginning in July 1934.^[2] The film's art direction is by Alfred Junge. British Gaumont's contract director Alfred Hitchcock was originally reported to be making the film, but instead directed The Man Who Knew Too Much.^[3]

Main cast

Violet Loraine as Belle Larrimore
Gordon Harker as Sam Pritchard
Aileen Marson as Kitty Hamble
Emlyn Williams as Chester
Hartley Power as Dick D'Arcy
Anne Grey as Lady Chettwinde
Stanley Holloway as Donovan
Marie Lohr as Lady Hamble
Edwin Styles as Archie Hamble
Romilly Lunge as Hugh Romilly

References

↑ Goble p.931
↑ Wood p.83
↑ Ryall p.103

Bibliography

Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
Ryall, Tom. Alfred Hitchcock and the British Cinema. Athlone Press, 1996.
Wood, Linda. British Films 1927-1939. BFI, 1986.

External links

Road House at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Maurice Elvey

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The Idol of Paris (1914)
The Loss of the Birkenhead (1914)
The Suicide Club (1914)
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A Will of Her Own (1915)
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I Lived with You (1933)
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