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Grumpy (1930 film)

Grumpy
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Directed by George Cukor
Cyril Gardner
Written by Doris Anderson
Based on the play by Horace Hodges and Thomas Wigney
Starring Cyril Maude
Frances Dade
Paul Lukas
Music by Karl Hajos
Cinematography David Abel
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date
  • August 1, 1930 (1930-08-01)
Running time
74 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Grumpy (1930) is an American Pre-Code drama film directed by George Cukor and Cyril Gardner, and released by Paramount Pictures. The screenplay by Doris Anderson is based on a play by Horace Hodges and Thomas Wigney. A Spanish-language version entitled Cascarrabias, written by Catalan writer Josep Carner Ribalta (1898–1988) and directed by Gardner, was released by Paramount the same year. The film is a remake of a 1923 silent film of the same title.

The titular character is a temperamental but lovable retired London barrister now living in the country with his granddaughter Virginia. Ernest Heron, Virginia's beau, returns from South Africa with a valuable diamond, and that night he is attacked and the gem is stolen. The only clue to the perpetrator's identity is a camellia Ernest is found clutching in his hand.

Suspicion falls upon Chamberlin Jarvis, an acquaintance of Virginia who was a houseguest at the time, and Grumpy follows him when he returns to the city, where he tries to sell the diamond to Berci. Knowing Jarvis is a suspect, Berci turns him away, and the thief, frightened by a confrontation with Grumpy, eventually returns to the country, returns the jewel, and is arrested.

The film marked George Cukor's debut as a film director.

Exteriors were filmed in Kernville, California. Interiors were filmed at Paramount's Astoria Studios in Queens, New York.



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