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1933 film
Up for the Derby
Directed byMaclean Rogers
Written byBert Lee
Jack Marks
R. P. Weston
Produced byHerbert Wilcox
StarringSydney Howard
Dorothy Bartlam
Tom Helmore
CinematographyCyril Bristow
Freddie Young
Edited byCecil H. Williamson
Music byLew Stone
Harris Weston
Production
company
British and Dominions
Distributed byWoolf & Freedman Film Service
Release date
  • 1933 (1933)
Running time70 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Up for the Derby is a 1933 British sports comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Sydney Howard, Dorothy Bartlam and Tom Helmore. The screenplay concerns a tramp who unexpectedly gains money.

It was made at British and Dominion Elstree Studios. The film's sets were designed by the art director Frederick Pusey.

Plot

A tramp unexpectedly comes into some money, and buys a racehorse which goes on to win The Derby.

Cast

References

  1. Wood p.76

Bibliography

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

External links

Films by Maclean Rogers
Films by Herbert Wilcox
As director
Producer only


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