| Rookery Nook | |
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| Directed by | Tom Walls |
| Written by | W. P. Lipscomb Ben Travers |
| Based on | the farce by Ben Travers |
| Produced by | Herbert Wilcox |
| Starring | Tom Walls Ralph Lynn Winifred Shotter Mary Brough |
| Cinematography | Bernard Knowles William Shenton |
| Edited by | Maclean Rogers (uncredited) |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Woolf & Freedman Film Service (UK) MGM (US) |
Release date |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £14,000[1] or $270,000[2] |
| Box office | £150,000 (England)[1] or $550,000 (UK)[2] |
Rookery Nook is a 1930 film farce, directed by Tom Walls, with a script by Ben Travers. It is a screen adaptation of the original 1926 Aldwych farce of the same title. The film was known in the U.S. as One Embarrassing Night.[3]
The film was very successful at the box office and led to a series of filmed farces.[1][4]
- ^ a b c Wilcox, Herbert (1967). Twenty Five Thousand Sunsets. South Brunswick. p. 88.
- ^ a b "English Making Money". Variety. 17 September 1930. p. 57.
- ^ Ben Travers. "One Embarrassing Night (1930) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast". AllMovie. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
- ^ "DIRECTOR-PLAYERS". The West Australian. Vol. L, no. 9, 834. Western Australia. 5 January 1934. p. 3. Retrieved 27 August 2017 – via National Library of Australia.