French Leave (1930 film)

Not to be confused with French Leave (1937 film).

French Leave
Haddon Mason & Madeleine Carroll
Directed by	Jack Raymond
Produced by	Henry Defries Sam Harrison
Written by	Reginald Berkeley (play and screenplay) W.P. Lipscomb
Starring	Madeleine Carroll Sydney Howard Arthur Chesney
Cinematography	Bernard Knowles
Production company	D&H Productions
Distributed by	Sterling Films
Release dates	21 August 1930 (London) (UK)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

French Leave is a 1930 British comedy film directed by Jack Raymond and starring Madeleine Carroll, Sydney Howard and Arthur Chesney.^[1] It was made at Elstree Studios.^[2] It is based on a play by Reginald Berkeley, a "light comedy in three acts", set during the First World War.^[3] It was remade in 1937 by Norman Lee.^[4]

Plot

During World War I, Captain's wife Dorothy Glenister finds it hard being separated from her husband, so she travels to France to the village where he's stationed. Dorothy disguises herself as the daughter of a local, which leads to complications when she's suspected of being a German spy.

Cast

Madeleine Carroll as Mlle. Juliette / Dorothy Glenister
Sydney Howard as Cpl. Sykes
Arthur Chesney as General Root
Haddon Mason as Captain Harry Glenister
Henry Kendall as Lt. George Graham
May Agate as Mme. Denaux
George Owen as Pvt. Jenks
George De Warfaz as Jules Marnier

Critical reception

The New York Times called it "a moderately amusing British picturization of the stage farce, "French Leave," with the charming Madeleine Carroll... the photography is sometimes none too clear, but the voices are nicely recorded" ;^[5] while more recently, TV Guide thought it a "lame comedy...Long and tedious at 60 minutes; the original British cut ran 100 minutes." ^[6]

References

↑ "French Leave (1930)".
↑ Wood p.69
↑ Wintour, Barry (25 April 2014). "Britain and the Great War, 1914-1918: A Subject Bibliography of Some Selected Aspects". Lulu.com – via Google Books.
↑ "French Leave (1937)".
↑ http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9905E0DB1E39EE3ABC4F53DFB467838A629EDE
↑ "French Leave".

Bibliography

Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

External links

French Leave at the Internet Movie Database

The films of Jack Raymond

A Woman Misunderstood (1921)
Somehow Good (1927)
Second to None (1927)
Zero (1928)
A Peep Behind the Scenes (1929)
Splinters (1929)
French Leave (1930)
The Great Game (1930)
Up for the Cup (1931)
The Speckled Band (1931)
Tilly of Bloomsbury (1931)
Almost a Divorce (1931)
Mischief (1931)
Life Goes On (1932)
Say It with Music (1932)
Up to the Neck (1933)
Night of the Garter (1933)
Just My Luck (1933)
It's a King (1933)
Sorrell and Son (1934)
The King of Paris (1934)
Girls, Please! (1934)
Where's George? (1935)
Come Out of the Pantry (1935)
When Knights Were Bold (1936)
The Frog (1937)
The Rat (1937)
Blondes for Danger (1938)
No Parking (1938)
A Royal Divorce (1938)
The Mind of Mr. Reeder (1939)
The Missing People (1940)
You Will Remember (1941)
Up for the Cup (1950)
Take Me to Paris (1951)
Reluctant Heroes (1951)
Worm's Eye View (1951)
Little Big Shot (1952)

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