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1942 British film by Walter C. Mycroft From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Banana Ridge is a 1942 British comedy film directed by Walter C. Mycroft and starring Robertson Hare, Alfred Drayton and Isabel Jeans.[1] The film is based on a 1938 stage play of the same name by Ben Travers. It was made at Welwyn Studios. Michael Denison accompanied his wife Dulcie Gray for her screen test for the film, which led some years later to his casting in his breakthrough role in My Brother Jonathan.[2] The film was a success at the box office. Hare and Drayton appeared together in another comedy Women Aren't Angels the following year.
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Directed by | Walter C. Mycroft |
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Produced by | Walter C. Mycroft |
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Cinematography | Claude Friese-Greene |
Edited by | Flora Newton |
Music by | Harry Acres Marr Mackie |
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Distributed by | Associated British Picture Corporation |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Two colleagues come to worry that a mysterious young man may be their son from liaisons with the same woman during the First World War. They are persuaded to give him a job at "Banana Ridge" one of the company's rubber plantations in the Malay States. The young man's romance with the bosses' daughter threatens this plan, as does his mother's plan to reveal who is his real father.
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