A Warm Corner

A Warm Corner

104 mins | Comedy, Romance | Sept. 29, 1930

This early Gainsborough film is truly a lost treasure and easily one of the most daring and risque films ever made. At least half a dozen different tales seem to be going on at once all finally meeting in the end. The story starts in the Lido hotel where our "Pickles" remarks upon the fact that everyone in the register is called Smith. Hes trying to chat up Mimi so shell split up with her boyfriend as her boyfriends uncle has other plans for his nephew - alas what no one knows is that he and Mimi have already been married for a few months on the sly!

A Warm Corner

104 mins | Comedy, Romance | Sept. 29, 1930

A Warm Corner
This early Gainsborough film is truly a lost treasure and easily one of the most daring and risque films ever made. At least half a dozen different tales seem to be going on at once all finally meeting in the end. The story starts in the Lido hotel where our "Pickles" remarks upon the fact that everyone in the register is called Smith. Hes trying to chat up Mimi so shell split up with her boyfriend as her boyfriends uncle has other plans for his nephew - alas what no one knows is that he and Mimi have already been married for a few months on the sly!
Producers Gainsborough Pictures, Gaumont-British Picture Corporation
Original title A Warm Corner
Directors Victor Saville
Writers Lauri Wylie, Ernst Bach, Franz Arnold, Arthur Wimperis, Angus MacPhail, Victor Saville

Cast

Leslie Henson

as Mr. Corner

Austin Melford

as Peter Price

Connie Ediss

as Mrs. Corner

Toni Edgar-Bruce

as Lady Bayswater

Alfred Wellesley

as Mr. Turner

Kim Peacock

as Count Toscani

Belle Chrystall

as Peggy

George DeWarfaz

as Count Pasetti

Harry Crocker

as Joseph

Merle Oberon

as Bit Part