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D'Ye Ken John Peel?
1935 British film by Henry Edwards From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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D'Ye Ken John Peel? (also known in the United States as Captain Moonlight) is a 1935 British adventure film directed by Henry Edwards and starring John Garrick, Winifred Shotter and Stanley Holloway. It was made at Julius Hagen's Twickenham Studios.[1] Its name was derived from the traditional hunting song of the same name. The film's sets were designed by the art director James A. Carter.
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Synopsis
Major John Peel returns to England from serving in the Napoleonic Wars to discover that his friend Lucy Merrall is now engaged to be married to local villain Sir Charles Hawksley.
Critical reception
Film critic David Parkinson, writing in The Radio Times, gave the film 2 stars out of 5 and called the film a "a crusty old melodrama in the Tod Slaughter tradition", with Leslie Perrins "chewing the scenery with a delicious lack of restraint". He summarised: "This is anything but a lost classic, but there is the chance to see Stanley Holloway as Sam Small, the character he adopted for so many of his famous monologues."[2]
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Cast
- John Garrick as Major John Peel
- Winifred Shotter as Lucy Merrall
- Stanley Holloway as Sam Small
- John Stuart as Captain Moonlight / Captain Freeman
- Leslie Perrins as Sir Charles Hawksley / Mr. Craven
- Mary Lawson as Toinette
- Charles Carson as Francis Merrall
- Wilfrid Caithness as Latimer
- Morris Harvey as Glover
- Gabrielle Casartelli as Lizzie
- O. B. Clarence as Ogleby
- Charles Eaton
- Cameron Hall
- Peta Mannering
- Pat Noonan
- Ralph Truman as 1st Ruffian Footman
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