We're Going to Be Rich
We're Going to Be Rich | |
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Directed by | Monty Banks |
Written by | Sam Hellman Rohama Siegel James Edward Grant |
Produced by | Samuel G. Engel |
Starring | Gracie Fields Victor McLaglen Brian Donlevy |
Cinematography | Mutz Greenbaum |
Music by | Bretton Byrd |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox |
Release date | 3 July 1938 |
Running time | 78 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
We're Going to Be Rich is a 1938 British historical musical comedy film directed by Monty Banks and starring Gracie Fields, Victor McLaglen and Brian Donlevy.
Synopsis
During the 1880s Kit Dobson, an English music hall singer performing in Australia, has scraped together enough money to buy a passage home to Britain with plans to settle down. However, unknown to her, her unreliable boyfriend has used most of the money to buy a gold mine in South Africa. They arrive in Gold Rush Johannesburg only to find that they have been swindled. The only option left for them is for Kit to seek a job singing in a saloon run by an American known as Yankee Gordon.
Cast
- Gracie Fields as Kit Dobson
- Victor McLaglen as Dobbie
- Brian Donlevy as Yankee Gordon
- Coral Browne as Pearl
- Ted Smith as Tim
- Gus McNaughton as Broderick
- Charles Carson as Keeler
- Syd Crossley as Jake
- Hal Gordon as Charlie
- Robert Nainby as Judge
- Charles Harrison as Rat Face
- Tom Payne as Kinch
- Don McCorkindale as Killer
- Joe Mott as Manager
- Alex Davies as Kimberley Kid
Production
The film was the first made following Fields switch from Ealing Studios to 20th Century Fox. It was shot at Denham Studios.[1] It was made with a budget of $500,000.[2]
References
Bibliography
- Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
- Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
External links
- 1938 films
- British films
- 1930s musical comedy films
- English-language films
- Films directed by Monty Banks
- British musical comedy films
- 20th Century Fox films
- Films set in the 1880s
- Films set in Australia
- Films set in South Africa
- British historical comedy films
- 1930s historical musical films
- Films shot at Denham Film Studios
- British black-and-white films
- British historical musical films
- 1938 comedy films
- 1930s British comedy film stubs