The First Offence

The First Offence
Directed by	Herbert Mason
Produced by	Michael Balcon
Written by	Stafford Dickens Austin Melford
Based on	Mauvaise Graine
Starring	John Mills Lilli Palmer Bernard Nedell
Music by	Allan Gray Franz Waxman
Cinematography	Arthur Crabtree
Edited by	Michael Gordon
Production company	Gainsborough Pictures
Distributed by	Gaumont-British Distributors
Release dates	March 1936 (1936-03) United Kingdom
Running time	66 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The First Offence is a 1936 British low-budget "quota quickie"^[1] drama film directed by Herbert Mason and starring John Mills, Lilli Palmer and Bernard Nedell.^[2] It is a remake of the 1934 French film Mauvaise Graine, directed by Billy Wilder.^[3]

Plot

A wealthy doctor's rich and spoiled son, Johnnie Penrose joins a gang of car thieves in France after being denied a car by his father.

Cast

John Mills as Johnnie Penrose
Lilli Palmer as Jeanette
Bernard Nedell as The Boss
Michel André as Michel
H. G. Stoker as Doctor Penrose
Jean Wall as The Zebra
Paul Velsa as Peanuts
Marcel Maupi as Man in Panama Hat
Judy Kelly as Girl in Garage
Marcel André as Michel

Production

Filming took place in London.^[4]

References

↑ Matthew Sweet (2 January 2007). "Fancy a quickie?". The Guardian.
↑ First Offence at the British Film Institute's Film and TV Database
↑ Bergfelder p. 174
↑ Neale, 2012, p. 138

Bibliography

Bergfelder, Tim & Cargnelli, Christian. Destination London: German-speaking emigrés and British cinema, 1925-1950. Berghahn Books, 2008.
Neale, Stephen. (2012). The Classical Hollywood Reader. Routledge

External links

The First Offence at the Internet Movie Database
First Offence at the British Film Institute's Film and TV Database
The First Offence Britmovie | Home of British Films

Herbert Mason

As director

The First Offence (1936)
His Lordship (1936)
East Meets West (1936)
Take My Tip (1937)
Strange Boarders (1938)
The Silent Battle (1939)
A Window in London (1940)
Dr. O'Dowd (1940)
The Briggs Family (1940)
Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light (1941)
Fingers (1941)
Once a Crook (1941)
Back-Room Boy (1942)
The Night Invader (1943)
It's in the Bag (1944)
Flight from Folly (1945)

Films produced by Michael Balcon

1920s	The Rat (1925) The Sea Urchin (1926) The Triumph of the Rat (1926) The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1926) The Mountain Eagle (1926) Blighty (1927) Downhill (1927) The Rolling Road (1927) Easy Virtue (1927) One of the Best (1927) The Vortex (1927) A South Sea Bubble (1928) A Light Woman (1928) The First Born (1928) The Wrecker (1929) The Return of the Rat (1929) City of Play (1929) Taxi for Two (1929) Woman to Woman (1929)

1930s	Jack's the Boy (1932) I Was a Spy (1933) It's a Boy (1933) Friday the Thirteenth (1933) Princess Charming (1934) Evergreen (1934) Red Ensign (1934) Along Came Sally (1934) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) Car of Dreams (1935) First a Girl (1935) Me and Marlborough (1935) The 39 Steps (1935) Stormy Weather (1935) Things Are Looking Up (1935) The First Offence (1936) Tudor Rose (1936) The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936) Secret Agent (1936) Where There's a Will (1936) Windbag the Sailor (1936) Doctor Syn (1937) A Yank at Oxford (1938) The Gaunt Stranger (1938) The Four Just Men (1939) Cheer Boys Cheer (1939)

1940s	Let George Do It! (1940) The Proud Valley (1940) The Ghost of St. Michael's (1941) Ships with Wings (1941) Turned Out Nice Again (1941) The Big Blockade (1942) Went the Day Well? (1942) The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942) My Learned Friend (1943) The Foreman Went to France (1942) Undercover (1943) The Bells Go Down (1943) San Demetrio London (1943) Nine Men (1943) For Those in Peril (1944) Champagne Charlie (1944) The Halfway House (1944) Fiddlers Three (1944) Dead of Night (1945) Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945) They Came to a City (1945) Johnny Frenchman (1945) The Captive Heart (1946) The Overlanders (1946) Hue and Cry (1947) It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) The Loves of Joanna Godden (1947) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947) Frieda (1947) Against the Wind (1948) Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948) Scott of the Antarctic (1948) Passport to Pimlico (1949) Whisky Galore! (1949) A Run for Your Money (1949) Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

1950s	Cage of Gold (1950) The Blue Lamp (1950) The Magnet (1950) The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) Pool of London (1951) The Man in the White Suit (1951) Mandy (1952) The Cruel Sea (1953) The Ladykillers (1953) The Maggie (1954) The Night My Number Came Up (1955) Touch and Go (1955) The Long Arm (1956) Barnacle Bill (1957) The Man in the Sky (1957) The Shiralee (1957) Dunkirk (1958) The Siege of Pinchgut (1959) The Scapegoat (1959) The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961)

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