ME AND MARLBOROUGH (1935) Cicely Courtneidge, Tom Walls & Barry MacKay | Comedy, Mystery | B&W

Me and Marlborough is a 1935 British comedy film, directed by Victor Saville, and starring Cicely Courtneidge, Tom Walls, Barry MacKay, Peter Gawthorne, Henry Oscar and Cecil Parker.

SYNOPSIS
In 1709, Kit Ross (Cicely Courtneidge) disguises herself as a man and joins the army to search for her press-ganged husband.

Sergeant Cummings searches Kit Ross's pub for a deserter drummer boy. When he finds the lad, Kit leads the pub patrons in attacking the sergeant's men, and the young man gets away, for which she is put in stocks. While there, she plans her impending wedding to Dick Welch. However, Cummings gets his revenge. On the night of the wedding, he tricks Dick into taking a shilling, which means he has enlisted in the army. She watches as a ship takes him to the fighting. Undaunted, she disguises herself as a man named Simon and joins up with the Duke of Marlborough's army in Flanders to find her missing husband.

CAST & CREW
Cicely Courtneidge as Kit Ross
Tom Walls as Duke of Marlborough
Barry MacKay as Dick Welch
Alfred Drayton as Sergeant Bull
Iris Ashley as Josephine
Ivor McLaren as Sergeant Cummings
Gibb McLaughlin as Old soldier
Peter Gawthorne as Staff Colonel
Cecil Parker as Colonel of the Greys
George Merritt as Harley
Cyril Smith as Corporal Fox
Mickey Brantford as Ensign Coke
Randle Ayrton as King Louis XIV
Henry Oscar as Goultier
Percy Walsh as Naylor
Donald Calthrop as Drunken Yokel

Directed by Victor Saville
Written by Marjorie Gaffney, Ian Hay, W. P. Lipscomb, Reginald Pound
Produced by Michael Balcon
Cinematography Curt Courant, Charles Van Enger
Edited by Michael Gordon
Music by, Louis Levy, Jack Beaver
Production company Gaumont British
Distributed by Gaumont British Distributors
Release date 25 July 1935
Running time 84 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English

NOTES
Reception
Writing for The Spectator, Graham Greene criticized the theatrical qualities of Courtneidge's performance, claiming that "I found myself too embarrassed by Miss Courtneidge's facial contortions to appreciate their share. Miss Courtneidge is used to throwing her effects to the back row of a theatre gallery, and the camera is not kind to her exaggerations".