The Big Noise (1936 musical film)

The Big Noise
Directed by	Alex Bryce
Produced by	John Findlay
Written by	Gerard Fairlie Gene Markey Harry Ruskin
Starring	Alastair Sim Norah Howard Fred Duprez
Music by	Colin Wark
Cinematography	Stanley Grant
Production company	Fox Film Company
Distributed by	Fox Film Company
Release dates	1936
Running time	65 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The Big Noise is a 1936 British musical comedy film directed by Alex Bryce and starring Alastair Sim, Norah Howard and Fred Duprez. The film was a quota quickie made at Wembley Studios by the Hollywood studio Fox's British subsidiary.^[1]

Synopsis

A clerk in an oil company is promoted in order to make him the fall guy for a series of illegal transactions that have brought it to the brink of ruin, but instead manages to turn the business around

Cast

Alastair Sim as Finny
Norah Howard as Mary Miller
Fred Duprez as Henry Hadley
Grizelda Harvey as Consuelo
C. Denier Warren as E. Pinkerton Gale
Viola Compton as Mrs. Dayton
Peter Popp as Jenkins
Howard Douglas as Gluckstein
Reginald Forsyth as Orchestra Leader
Edie Martin as Old Lady

References

↑ Wood p.89

Bibliography

Chibnall, Steve. Quota Quickies: The British of the British 'B' Film. British Film Institute, 2007.
Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

External links

The Big Noise at the Internet Movie Database

The films of Alex Bryce

Sexton Blake and the Mademoiselle (1935) The Big Noise (1936) Wedding Group (1936) The End of the Road (1936) The Black Tulip (1937) Against the Tide (1937) The Londonderry Air (1938) The Last Barricade (1938) My Irish Molly (1938) Macushla (1940)

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