Everything Happens to Me (1938 film)

Everything Happens to Me is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Roy William Neill and starring Max Miller, Chili Bouchier and H.F. Maltby. It was made at Teddington Studios by the British subsidiary of Warner Brothers The film's sets were designed by the art directors Peter Proud and Michael Relph.

Everything Happens to Me
Directed byRoy William Neill
Produced byJerome Jackson
Written byJohn Dighton
Austin Melford
StarringMax Miller
Chili Bouchier
H.F. Maltby
Music byLouis Levy
CinematographyBasil Emmott
Edited byLeslie Norman
Production
company
Warner Brothers
Distributed byWarner Brothers-First National Productions
Release date
December 1938
Running time
82 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Synopsis

The film features Miller as a vacuum-cleaner salesman volunteering as an election agent to canvas on behalf of prospective candidate Arthur Gusty (Maltby). However, when he learns from nurse Sally Green (Bouchier) that Gusty is a crook who has been systematically siphoning off funds from the local orphanage into his own pocket, he withdraws his support and throws himself whole-heartedly behind the campaign of Gusty's honourable opponent Norman Prodder (Frederick Burtwell).

Cast

The title song and another within the film were written by Fred Godfrey.

Bibliography

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