Kino Quickies 08 - The Impassive Footman (1932) with Mel Byron
10/26/22 • 59 min
The Impassive Footman (1932), is the earliest film in Kino Quickies season 2. It's a tense melodrama about an unhappy marriage, a foiled affair and a doctor's dilemma, all watched over by a mysterious -you might even say impassive - footman.
The film stars George Curzon as the eponymous footman, Betty Stockfeld & Allan Jeayes as the married couple at the centre of the film and Owen Nares as dashing young doctor, Bryan Daventry.
NOBODY is credited as the film's director - the candidates are its producer, Basil Dean and Graham Cutts. We try to get to the bottom of this in the Q&A.
Our guest for the Q&A is comedian and host of the Talking Pictures TV Podcast, Mel Byron.
The TPTV podcast is mostly made up of reviews of upcoming films submitted by TPTV viewers. Mel and the team are always looking for new contributors - especially of the lady variety because it's currently a bit chap-heavy. If you'd like to take part, get in touch with them on Twitter, Facebook or by email.
And you can follow Mel on Twitter
The Impassive Footman is available as part of a DVD box set which you can buy here.
Your hosts at Kino Quickies screenings are Dom Delargy and Dr Lawrence Napper,
Book tickets for all future Kino quickies screening at our ticketing site.
Subscribe to our other film related podcast, Soho Bites and our non-film related one Mural Morsels.
Watch Lawrence's online talk about quota quickies - its title is controversial! Quota Quickies: the worst films ever made?
Follow Lawrence on Twitter.
Follow Kino Quickies on Twitter and Facebook for updates.
Join our MAILING LIST and never miss a screening again.
Here's a very good article explaining what Quota Quickies are from the Cinema History Blog.
Well that was fascinating but now I want to find out more
The Impassive Footman (1932), is the earliest film in Kino Quickies season 2. It's a tense melodrama about an unhappy marriage, a foiled affair and a doctor's dilemma, all watched over by a mysterious -you might even say impassive - footman.
The film stars George Curzon as the eponymous footman, Betty Stockfeld & Allan Jeayes as the married couple at the centre of the film and Owen Nares as dashing young doctor, Bryan Daventry.
NOBODY is credited as the film's director - the candidates are its producer, Basil Dean and Graham Cutts. We try to get to the bottom of this in the Q&A.
Our guest for the Q&A is comedian and host of the Talking Pictures TV Podcast, Mel Byron.
The TPTV podcast is mostly made up of reviews of upcoming films submitted by TPTV viewers. Mel and the team are always looking for new contributors - especially of the lady variety because it's currently a bit chap-heavy. If you'd like to take part, get in touch with them on Twitter, Facebook or by email.
And you can follow Mel on Twitter
The Impassive Footman is available as part of a DVD box set which you can buy here.
Your hosts at Kino Quickies screenings are Dom Delargy and Dr Lawrence Napper,
Book tickets for all future Kino quickies screening at our ticketing site.
Subscribe to our other film related podcast, Soho Bites and our non-film related one Mural Morsels.
Watch Lawrence's online talk about quota quickies - its title is controversial! Quota Quickies: the worst films ever made?
Follow Lawrence on Twitter.
Follow Kino Quickies on Twitter and Facebook for updates.
Join our MAILING LIST and never miss a screening again.
Here's a very good article explaining what Quota Quickies are from the Cinema History Blog.
Well that was fascinating but now I want to find out more
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Kino Quickies 07 - The Last Journey (1935) with Martin Stollery
The Last Journey (1935), the first film in season two of Kino Quickies, is a seat-of-the-pants, nail-biting thriller set aboard a runaway train, directed by Bernard Vorhaus.
It stars Hugh Williams as Gerald Winter, Godfrey Tearle as Sir Wilfred Rhodes, Judy Gunn as Diana and Julien Mitchell as Bob Holt, the train driver whose suicidal mania is causing such a to-do.
Our guest for the Q&A is Dr Martin Stollery who knows a thing or two about editing as he wrote British Film Editors .
Your hosts are Dom Delargy and Dr Lawrence Napper,
Book tickets for all future Kino quickies screening at our ticketing site.
Subscribe to our other film related podcast, Soho Bites and our non-film related one Mural Morsels.
Watch Lawrence's online talk about quota quickies - its title is controversial! Quota Quickies: the worst films ever made?
Follow Lawrence on Twitter.
Follow Kino Quickies on Twitter and Facebook for updates.
Join our MAILING LIST and never miss a screening again.
Here's a very good article explaining what Quota Quickies are from the Cinema History Blog.
Well that was fascinating but now I want to find out more.
Don’t forget to subscribe to the Kino Quickies podcast. It comes out a few days after each screening.
They don't just screen ninety year old films at the Kino - they show recent ones too! Keep up to date with their Twitter, Instagram and website.
Our sound engineer for this one (and the voice of "1930s man") was Robin Warren AKA Robin The Fog - follow him on Twitter.
We are delighted to have received support from Talking Pictures TV - the UK's best TV station. You can find them on your television on these channels: Sky 328, Freeview 82, Freesat 306 and Virgin 445 and register for their online catch-up service,
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Kino Quickies 09 - I Lived With You (1933) with John Snelson
I Lived With You (1933) - a comedy starring Ivor Novello, based on a play that he wrote - is the third film in this second season of Kino Quickies.
Novello plays a homeless Russian prince who meets Gladys Wallis (Ursula Jeans) in the maze at Hampton Court and moves in with her family. His presence in this normal family home has chaotic effects on the whole household. Also starring Ida Lupino as Glad's sister, Ada and Eliot Makeham & Minnie Rayner as her parents, the film was directed by the most prolific director in UK film history, Maurice Elvey.
Our guest for the Q&A is the author John Snelson, who has written extensively about the performing arts and has a new book coming out soon about the history of British musicals.
I Lived With You has been released on DVD by Renown Films. Currently, however, all the copies available online are really expensive, so hopeully it will turn up on Talking Pictures TV and TPTV Encore soon.
Your hosts at Kino Quickies screenings are Dom Delargy and Dr Lawrence Napper,
Book tickets for all future Kino quickies screening at our ticketing site.
Subscribe to our other film related podcast, Soho Bites and our non-film related one Mural Morsels.
Watch Lawrence's online talk about quota quickies - its title is controversial! Quota Quickies: the worst films ever made?
Follow Lawrence on Twitter.
Follow Kino Quickies on Twitter and Facebook for updates.
Join our MAILING LIST and never miss a screening again.
Here's a very good article explaining what Quota Quickies are from the Cinema History Blog.
Well that was fascinating but now I want t...
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