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The Laughter of Fools is a British film of genre Drama directed by Adrian Brunel with D. A. Clarke-Smith

The Laughter of Fools (1933)

The Laughter of Fools
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Genres Drama

The Laughter of Fools is a 1933 British drama film directed by Adrian Brunel and starring D. A. Clarke-Smith, Derrick De Marney and Helen Ferrers. It was based on a play by H. F. Maltby. The screenplay concerns an ambitious mother who plans to marry her daughter to a sea captain.

The film was a quota quickie made at Nettlefold Studios in Walton by the independent producer George Smith as part of a contract from Fox who needed a supply of films to distribute in order to comply with the terms of the quota.

Actors

D. A. Clarke-Smith

(Plunket)Derrick De Marney

(Captain Vidal)Eliot Makeham

(John Gregg)Patricia Paterson

(Doris Gregg)Dorothy Vernon

(Cook)
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