Take My Tip | |
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Directed by | Herbert Mason |
Produced by | Michael Balcon |
Written by |
Francis de Croisset (play) Sidney Gilliat Michael Hogan Jack Hulbert |
Starring |
Jack Hulbert Cicely Courtneidge Harold Huth Frank Cellier |
Music by | Bretton Byrd |
Cinematography | Bernard Knowles |
Edited by | Charles Saunders |
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Distributed by | General Film Distributors |
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74 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Take My Tip is a 1937 British musical comedy film directed by Herbert Mason (who stage managed some musical revues in the past), produced by Michael Balcon and starring Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge, Harold Huth and Frank Cellier. A pair of adopt various disguises to unmask a confidence trickster.
It was made at the Lime Grove Studios in Shepherd's Bush. The film's sets were designed by art director Ernö Metzner. Songs featured include I Was Anything but Sentimental and I'm Like a Little Birdie out of My Cage.
Britmovie called it a "hilarious rapid-fire musical farce."