Sporting Love

Brothers Percy and Peter Brace attempt a sequence of schemes whilst betting on horses to avoid bankruptcy, whilst attempting to woo the sisters Mable and Maude and to inherit money from a rich aunt.

Production Details

A British Lion Picture. A Hammer Production
Produced at British Lion Studios, Beaconsfield
Distributed throughout the United Kingdom and Irish Free State by British Lion Film Corporation Ltd. &6-78 Wardour St., London, W1. S.W.Smith Managing Director

Black & White 67 minutes

UK Release: 24th May 1936

Studio:
British Lion Studios, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire

Stills from the film

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Cast & Crew

Red = Uncredited


Crew	Name	Age at Release	Birth	Death	Age	Hammer Credits	Uncredited	Total Hammer
Adaptation	Ingram DAbbes	38	6 Jan 1898	21 Dec 1975	77	2		2
Adapted by	Fenn Sherie	39	12 Aug 1896	29 Jul 1947	50	2		2
Additional Music	Jack Beaver	36	27 Mar 1900	10 Sep 1963	63		3	3
Art Director	J. Elder Wills	36	26 Apr 1900	1970	69	22		22
Art Director	Norman Arnold	43	19 Sep 1892	7 Dec 1963	71	2		2
Assistant Director	Parry Davis					1		1
Choreographer	Fred Leslie	55	19 Aug 1880	1 Aug 1945	64		1	1
Director	J. Elder Wills	36	26 Apr 1900	1970	69	22		22
Executive Producer	Will Hammer	48	21 Nov 1887	1 Jun 1957	69	3	3	6
Film Editor	Hugh Stewart	25	14 Dec 1910	31 May 2011	100	1		1
From the play by	Stanley Lupino	43	15 May 1893	10 Jun 1942	49	2		2
Music	Eric Ansell	35	21 Aug 1900	1981	80	3		3
Musical Director	Billy Mayerl	33	31 May 1902	25 Mar 1959	56	1		1
Photography	Eric Cross	33	31 May 1902	1 Mar 2004	101	4		4
Production Supervisor	Henry Passmore	31	1905	Aug 1987	82	4		4
Sound Engineer	Harold King	28	3 Nov 1907	22 May 1959	51	2		2
Sound Engineer	York Scarlett	28	1907	1984	77	1	1	2

Cast	Name	Age at Release	Birth	Death	Age	Hammer Credits	Uncredited	Total Hammer
Aunt Fanny	Clarissa Selwynne	50	26 Feb 1886	13 Jun 1948	62	1		1
Gerald Dane	Bobbie Comber	50	8 Jan 1886	1 Mar 1942	56	1		1
Lord Dimsdale	Henry Carlisle					1		1
Maid	Merle Tottenham	35	22 Jan 1901	18 Jul 1958	57	2		2
Maude Dane	Eda Peel					1		1
Nellie Gray	Lu Ann Meredith	22	7 Jul 1913	12 Nov 1998	85	1		1
Percy Brace	Stanley Lupino	43	15 May 1893	10 Jun 1942	49	2		2
Peter Brace	Laddie Cliff	44	3 Sep 1891	8 Dec 1937	46	1		1
Wilfred Wimple	Wyn Weaver	65	1871	14 Mar 1951	80	1		1
With	Arty Ash	44	14 Jan 1892	6 Sep 1962	70	1		1
With	Barry Lupino	54	7 Jan 1882	26 Mar 1951	69	1		1
With	Syd Crossley	50	18 Nov 1885	15 Nov 1960	74		1	1

Original Poster

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Footnotes

Based on the musical “Sporting Life” which was writtted by Stanley Lupino.

Merle Tottenham also appeared in Hammer’s Room to Let 1950.

1936 BBFC Cert. “U”

Production Details

Stills from the film

Cast & Crew

Original Poster

Footnotes

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