Rookery Nook (film)

Rookery Nook
Sheet music for featured song
Directed by	Tom Walls
Produced by	Herbert Wilcox
Written by	W. P. Lipscomb Ben Travers
Based on	the farce by Ben Travers
Starring	Tom Walls Ralph Lynn Winifred Shotter Mary Brough
Cinematography	Bernard Knowles William Shenton
Edited by	Maclean Rogers (uncredited)
Production company	Herbert Wilcox Productions (for) British & Dominions Film Corporation The Gramophone Company
Distributed by	Woolf & Freedman Film Service (UK) MGM (US)
Release dates	11 February 1930 (London) (UK) 21 June 1930 (US)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Rookery Nook is a 1930 film farce, directed by Tom Walls, with a script by Ben Travers. It is a screen adaptation of the original 1926 Aldwych farce of the same title. The film was known in the U.S. as One Embarrassing Night.^[1]

Synopsis

Rhoda Marley seeks refuge overnight from a tyrannical stepfather in the house of Gerald Popkiss. He is alone there, as his wife is away; fearing a scandal he attempts to conceal Rhoda's presence from nosy domestic staff and his in-laws, with the help of his cousin Clive. Eventually all is explained, Gerald and his wife are reconciled, and Clive pairs off with Rhoda.

Cast

• Gerald Popkiss – Ralph Lynn*
• Clive Popkiss – Tom Walls*
• Rhoda Marley – Winifred Shotter*
• Mrs Leverett – Mary Brough*
• Harold Twine – Robertson Hare*
• Gertrude Twine – Ethel Coleridge*
• Putz – Griffith Humphreys*
• Poppy Dickey – Doreen Bendix
• Clara Popkiss – Margot Grahame

Source: British Film Institute^[2]

Cast members marked * were the creators of the roles in the original stage production.^[3]

Reception

The film was voted the best British movie of 1930^[4]

Notes

External links

• Rookery Nook at the Internet Movie Database