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Lazybones + Her Last Affaire
Romantic intrigue and suspected murder – and an uproarious comic double-act.
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Director
Michael Powell
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With
Ian Hunter, Claire Luce, Bernard Nedell, Denys Blakelock
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UK 1935. 66min
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Digital 4K
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Certificate
PG
The lazybones of Powell’s amiable comedy is idle, penniless aristocrat Sir ‘Reggie’ Ford, who is shaken into a more productive existence when a criminal plot forces him to prove his worth to his American heiress wife. Shot after-hours with a cast hot-footing it from the West End, it betrays its stage origins, but Powell sprinkles it all with flashes of invention.
James Bell
+ Her Last Affaire
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Director
Michael Powell
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With
Hugh Williams, Viola Keats, John Laurie, Googie Withers
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UK 1936. 68min
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Digital 4K
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Certificate
PG
Powell’s adaptation of Walter Ellis’s successful West End play S.O.S. was the most prestigious production he had made to date. A ‘society drama’ involving suspicion, clandestine romance and presumed murder, its cast of accomplished stage actors are nonetheless entirely upstaged by the glorious comic double-act of Googie Withers as mischievous maid Effie, and John Laurie as her pious, disapproving employer.
James Bell
Remastering has been supported by Matt Spick and the Charles Skey Charitable Trust.
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