Brothers in Law (film)
Brothers in Law | |
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John Boulting | |
Starring | Richard Attenborough Ian Carmichael Terry-Thomas Jill Adams Miles Malleson |
Cinematography | Mutz Greenbaum |
Edited by | Anthony Harvey |
Music by | Benjamin Frankel |
Distributed by | British Lion Films Tudor |
Release date |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Brothers in Law is a 1957
Plot summary
Roger Thursby has just completed his
Roger and Henry vie for the affections of Sally, a fellow lodger. She obtains his first brief for him from her father, a solicitor. It is an undefended divorce case, which Roger manages to lose, to the lady's fury.
Roger slowly gains more confidence. He is given a 'dock brief', a case of fraud. Despite the odd behaviour of his client, Alfred Green, Roger gets him off. He also becomes the toast of his home town, when he appears in the local assizes court, and wins a case of slander, with his proud parents and their friends in the gallery.
Sally marries Charles, a stockbroker friend, but Roger and Henry perk up with the arrival of two attractive girls as fellow lodgers.
Main cast
- Richard Attenborough as Henry Marshall
- Ian Carmichael as Roger Thursby
- Terry-Thomas as Alfred Green
- Jill Adams as Sally Smith
- Miles Malleson as Kendall Grimes
- Raymond Huntley as Tatlock
- Eric Barker as Alec Blair
- Nicholas Parsons as Charles Poole
- Kynaston Reeves as Judge Lawson
- John Le Mesurier as Judge Ryman
- Irene Handl as Mrs. Potter
- Olive Sloane as Mrs. Newent
- Edith Sharpe as Mrs. Thursby
- Leslie Phillips as Shopkeeper
- Brian Oulton as Client
- George Rose as Mark Frost
- Kenneth Griffith as Undertaker
- Basil Dignam as Judge Emery
- Henry Longhurst as Reverend Arthur Thursby
- Penny Morrell as Rosalie Biddle
- John Schlesinger as Assize Court Solicitor
Critical reception
Box office
According to Kinematograph Weekly the film was "in the money" at the British box office in 1957.[6]
References
- ^ "Brothers in Law (1956)". BFI. Archived from the original on 12 July 2012.
- ^ "BFI Screenonline: Boulting Brothers". screenonline.org.uk.
- ^ Hal Erickson. "The Brothers in Law (1957) - Roy Boulting - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie.
- ^ "The Screen: Case Study of Lawyers; Brothers in Law' Opens at Guild British Comedy Stars Ian Carmichael". www.nytimes.com.
- ^ Tony Sloman. "Brothers in Law". RadioTimes.
- ^ Billings, Josh (12 December 1957). "Others in the money". Kinematograph Weekly. p. 7.
Bibliography
- Harper, Sue & Porter, Vincent. British Cinema of the 1950s: The Decline of Deference. Oxford University Press, 2003.
External links
- Brothers in Law at IMDb