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Hyde Park Corner (1935)

• Director
  • Sinclair Hill
• Writers
  • Walter C. Hackett(by)
  • Selwyn Jepson(adaptation)
  • D.B. Wyndham-Lewis(uncredited)
• Stars
  • Binnie Hale
  • Gordon Harker
  • Gibb McLaughlin

  Walter Hackett's popular stage farce Hyde Park Corner was smoothly transferred to the screen in 1935. Gordon Harker repeats his stage role as insouciant cockney Cheatie, a central figure in a bit of history that repeats itself. A duel to the death in 1780 turns out to have long-reaching effects for the ancestors of the two participants. When in 1935 it looks as though the duel will be repeated -- under the same circumstances, at the same location -- the outcome is significantly different, and a whole lot happier. Binnie Hale co-stars as Sophie, a role originated on stage by Marion Lorne (yes, the same Marion Lorne who later played dithery Aunt Clara on TV's Bewitched).