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The School for Scandal is a British film of genre Comedy directed by Maurice Elvey with Basil Gill
The School for Scandal (1930)
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Add to a movie listThe School for Scandal is a 1930 British comedy film directed by Thorold Dickinson and Maurice Elvey and starring Basil Gill, Madeleine Carroll and Ian Fleming. It is the first sound film adaptation of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's play The School for Scandal. It is also the only feature-length film shot using the unsuccessful Raycol colour process, and marked the screen debut of Sally Gray.
The British Film Institute has placed it on the BFI 75 Most Wanted list of lost films.
Actors
Basil Gill
(Sir Peter Teazle)
Madeleine Carroll
(Lady Teazle)
Ian Fleming
(Joseph Surface)
Henry Hewitt
(Charles Surface)
Hector Abbas
(Moses)
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