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Lazybones


BFI NFTVA-TIK DATORREN KOPIA/COPY FROM BFI NFTVA/COPIA PROCEDENTE DE BFI NFTVA

A comedy of impoverished aristocracy endeavouring to retrieve the family fortune by marrying the lazy eldest son to an American heiress.

The result is all the more impressive when one knows that Powell had to make Lazybones in only thirteen nights. This was standard practice at Hagen's studio, which was open 24 hours a day, and was necessary due to the fact that the film's stars, Ian Hunter and Claire Luce, were appearing in West End plays and so filmed during the night before resting for the matinée and evening performances.
Sergio Angelini (National Film and Television Archive)

 

 


YEAR
  1935
PRODUCTION
  Real Art Production
DIRECTOR
  Michael Powell
SCREENPLAY
  Gerald Fairlie
PHOTOGRAPHY
  Ernest Palmer, Arthur Crabtree
EDITION
  Ralph Kemplen
CAST
  Ian Hunter (Sir Reginald Ford), Claire Luce (Kitty McCarthy), Bernard Neddell (Michael McCarthy), Denys Blakelock (Hugh Ford)
RUNNING TIME
  65 m.

 
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