Sir or Madam

Sir or Madam
Directed by	Carl Boese
Produced by	Carl Boese
Written by	Berta Ruck (novel) Luise Heilborn-Körbitz
Starring	Margot Armand Percy Marmont Ossi Oswalda Annette Benson
Music by	Hansheinrich Dransmann
Cinematography	Karl Buhlmann Hans Karl Gottschalk Karl Hasselmann
Production company	Foremost Productions Carl Boese-Film
Distributed by	Warner Brothers (UK) National-Film (Germany)
Release dates	1928 (Germany) February 1930 (UK)
Running time	6,421 feet^[1]
Country	Germany/United Kingdom
Language	Silent English/German intertitles

Sir or Madam (German: Ossi hat die Hosen an) is a 1928 British-German silent comedy film directed by Carl Boese and starring Margot Armand, Percy Marmont and Ossi Oswalda. It was based on the 1923 novel Sir or Madame by Berta Ruck and shot at Elstree Studios near London. The film was a co-production between Germany and Britain, with separate versions released in the countries. In Britain it was not released until February 1930.^[2]

Synopsis

A woman disguises herself as a man, and poses as a gentleman's valet. She then has to resist the advances of his vampish fiancee.^[3]

Cast

Margot Armand as Patricia Lloyd
Percy Marmont Sir Ralph Wellalone
Ossi Oswalda as Geulda Rhos
Annette Benson as Lady Day
Hannelore Benzinger
Olga Engl
Cara Guyl
Fritz Kampers
Fred Leslie
Hilde Maroff
Sophie Pagay
Karl Platen
Anna Stranz-Führing
Wolfgang Zilzer
Charles Ashton
Harold Huth
Lena Halliday
Edith Barker-Bennett

References

↑ Low p.386
↑ Low p.386
↑ British Film Institute. "Sir or Madam | BFI | British Film Institute". Explore.bfi.org.uk. Retrieved 2013-01-15.

Bibliography

Low, Rachael. History of the British Film: Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

External links

Sir or Madam at the Internet Movie Database

The films of Carl Boese

Nocturne of Love (1919)
The Geisha and the Samurai (1919)
The Golem (1920)
Ships and People (1920)
The Raft of the Dead (1921)
The Woman in Flames (1924)
Three Waiting Maids (1925)
If You Have an Aunt (1925)
The Marriage Swindler (1925)
The Man Without Sleep (1926)
Kubinke the Barber (1926)
The Trumpets are Blowing (1926)
Unmarried Daughters (1926)
The Sea Cadet (1926)
The Last Horse Carriage in Berlin (1926)
Nanette Makes Everything (1926)
Tough Guys, Easy Girls (1927)
The Eleven Devils (1927)
The White Spider (1927)
Sir or Madam (1928)
Eva in Silk (1928)
Lemke's Widow (1928)
When the Mother and the Daughter (1928)
The Page Boy at the Golden Lion (1928)
Children of the Street (1929)
Three Days Confined to Barracks (1930)
Rendezvous (1930)
The Soaring Maiden (1931)
Duty Is Duty (1931)
Without Meyer, No Celebration is Complete (1931)
My Cousin from Warsaw (1931)
The Unfaithful Eckehart (1931)
No Money Needed (1932)
The Cheeky Devil (1932)
You Will Be My Wife (1932)
Annemarie, the Bride of the Company (1932)
Paprika (1932)
Greetings and Kisses, Veronika (1933)
Paprika (1933)
The Sandwich Girl (1933)
Gretel Wins First Prize (1933)
Three Bluejackets and a Blonde (1933)
Homecoming to Happiness (1933)
The Lucky Diamond (1934)
Hearts are Trumps (1934)
Miss Madame (1934)
Bashful Felix (1934)
Adventure in Warsaw (1937)
A Diplomatic Wife (1937)
Five Million Look for an Heir (1938)
Hello Janine! (1939)
Everything for Gloria (1941)
The Brambilla Family Go on Holiday (1941)
The Wedding Hotel (1944)
Josef the Chaste (1953)
The Spanish Fly (1955)

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