D'Ye Ken John Peel?
1935 film
- John Garrick
- Winifred Shotter
- Stanley Holloway
Production
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Julius Hagen Productions
Release date
- 22 July 1935 (1935-07-22)
Running time
D'Ye Ken John Peel? (released in America as Captain Moonlight) is a 1935 British adventure film directed by Henry Edwards and starring John Garrick, Winifred Shotter and Stanley Holloway. It was made at Julius Hagen's Twickenham Studios.[1] It takes its name from the traditional hunting song of the same name. The film's sets were designed by the art director James A. Carter.
Synopsis
Major John Peel returns to England from serving in the Napoleonic Wars to discover that his friend Lucy Merrall is now engaged to be married to local villain Sir Charles Hawksley.
Critical reception
Film critic David Parkinson, writing in The Radio Times, gave the film 2 stars out of 5 and called the film a "a crusty old melodrama in the Tod Slaughter tradition", with Leslie Perrins "chewing the scenery with a delicious lack of restraint". He summarised: "This is anything but a lost classic, but there is the chance to see Stanley Holloway as Sam Small, the character he adopted for so many of his famous monologues."[2]
Cast
- John Garrick as Major John Peel
- Winifred Shotter as Lucy Merrall
- Stanley Holloway as Sam Small
- John Stuart as Captain Moonlight / Captain Freeman
- Leslie Perrins as Sir Charles Hawksley / Mr. Craven
- Mary Lawson as Toinette
- Charles Carson as Francis Merrall
- Wilfrid Caithness as Latimer
- Morris Harvey as Glover
- Gabrielle Casartelli as Lizzie
- O. B. Clarence as Ogleby
- Charles Eaton
- Cameron Hall
- Peta Mannering
- Pat Noonan
- Ralph Truman as 1st Ruffian Footman
References
Bibliography
- Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
- Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
External links
- D'Ye Ken John Peel? at IMDb
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Films directed by Henry Edwards
- A Welsh Singer (1915)
- Doorsteps (1916)
- East Is East (1916)
- Merely Mrs. Stubbs (1917)
- If Thou Wert Blind (1917)
- Broken Threads (1917)
- The Failure (1917)
- What's the Use of Grumbling (1918)
- Towards the Light (1918)
- The Poet's Windfall (1918)
- The Hanging Judge (1918)
- The City of Beautiful Nonsense (1919)
- Possession (1919)
- His Dearest Possession (1919)
- The Kinsman (1919)
- The Amazing Quest of Mr. Ernest Bliss (1920)
- John Forrest Finds Himself (1920)
- Aylwin (1920)
- A Temporary Vagabond (1920)
- Tit for Tat (1921)
- The Lunatic at Large (1921)
- The Bargain (1921)
- Simple Simon (1922)
- Lily of the Alley (1923)
- Boden's Boy (1923)
- The Naked Man (1923)
- The World of Wonderful Reality (1924)
- Owd Bob (1924)
- King of the Castle (1925)
- A Girl of London (1925)
- The Island of Despair (1926)
- One Colombo Night (1926)
- The Girl in the Night (1931)
- Stranglehold (1931)
- Brother Alfred (1932)
- The Flag Lieutenant (1932)
- The Barton Mystery (1932)
- General John Regan (1933)
- Discord (1933)
- One Precious Year (1933)
- Lord of the Manor (1933)
- Anne One Hundred (1933)
- Purse Strings (1933)
- The Lash (1934)
- The Man Who Changed His Name (1934)
- Lord Edgware Dies (1934)
- Are You a Mason? (1934)
- The Rocks of Valpre (1935)
- The Lad (1935)
- D'Ye Ken John Peel? (1935)
- Vintage Wine (1935)
- Squibs (1935)
- The Private Secretary (1935)
- Scrooge (1935)
- Eliza Comes to Stay (1936)
- In the Soup (1936)
- Juggernaut (1936)
- Beauty and the Barge (1937)
- Song of the Forge (1937)
- Vicar of Bray (1937)
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