The Private Secretary (film)

The Private Secretary
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Directed by	Henry Edwards
Produced by	Julius Hagen
Written by	George Broadhurst Arthur Macrae H. Fowler Mear
Based on	The farce by Charles Hawtrey (The Private Secretary) and the book by Von Moser (Der Bibliotheker)
Starring	Edward Everett Horton Barry MacKay Judy Gunn Oscar Asche
Music by	W.L. Trytel (uncredited)
Cinematography	Sydney Blythe William Luff
Production company	Julius Hagen Productions
Distributed by	Twickenham Film Distributors Ltd (UK)
Release date	September 1935 (UK)
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The Private Secretary is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Edward Everett Horton, Barry MacKay, Judy Gunn and Oscar Asche. It is an adaptation of the play The Private Secretary by Charles Henry Hawtrey. It was made at Twickenham Studios.

Wealthy Englishman Robert Cattermole returns from a trip to India to discover that instead of achieving success, his beloved nephew Robert has got into such debt that he now disguises himself as a mild-mannered minister to evade his creditors.

TV Guide felt the comedy of the Victorian farce "didn't translate well into later times. Horton and Sim (in a secondary role) serve as the film's saving graces with some nice comic moments", and Sky Movies agreed, calling the film "a mostly dismal British farce stickily directed by former acting superstar Henry Edwards, but held back from disaster by the pawkily amusing performances of Edward Everett Horton, dithering delightfully in the leading role, and Alastair Sim, offering a lugubrious contribution as Mr Nebulae."