Old Spanish Customers

1932 film

  • 15 September 1932 (1932-09-15)
Running time
67 minutes[1]CountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglish

Old Spanish Customers is a 1932 British comedy film directed by Lupino Lane and starring Leslie Fuller, Binnie Barnes and Drusilla Wills.[2] It was also known as Toreadors Don't Care. Val Guest has a small role; he later called the film "a terrible thing".[3]

Plot

British couple Bill and Martha (Leslie Fuller and Drusilla Wills) win a trip to Spain and enjoy a series of adventures, with henpecked Bill mistaken for a famous toreador and ending up in a bullfight.

Cast

  • Leslie Fuller as Bill Smithers
  • Drusilla Wills as Martha Smithers
  • Binnie Barnes as Carmen
  • Wallace Lupino as Pedro
  • Hal Gordon as Manuelito
  • Ernest Sefton as Tormitio
  • Hal Walters as Dancing partner
  • Betty Fields

Critical reception

TV Guide noted "A formula plot which delivers predictable results," and gave the film two out of five stars[4]

References

  1. ^ "BRITISH COMEDIES OF THE 1930S VOLUME 6 - British Board of Film Classification". www.bbfc.co.uk.
  2. ^ BFI.org
  3. ^ Fowler, Roy (1988). "Interview with Val Guest". British Entertainment History Project.
  4. ^ "Old Spanish Customers". TVGuide.com.

Bibliography

  • Sutton, David R. A chorus of raspberries: British film comedy 1929-1939. University of Exeter Press, 2000.
  • Old Spanish Customers at IMDb
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