Soldiers of the King (film)

Soldiers of the King
Directed byMaurice Elvey
Written byDouglas Furber
Jack Hulbert
W. P. Lipscomb
J. O. C. Orton
Produced byMichael Balcon
StarringCicely Courtneidge
Edward Everett Horton
Anthony Bushell
Dorothy Hyson
CinematographyPercy Strong
Leslie Rowson
Edited byR. E. Dearing
Ian Dalrymple
Music byLouis Levy
Production
company
Distributed byWoolf & Freedman Film Service
Release date
  • March 1933 (1933-03)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Soldiers of the King is a 1933 British historical comedy film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Cicely Courtneidge, Edward Everett Horton and Anthony Bushell.[1] It was Courtneidge's fourth film, and the first she appeared in without her husband Jack Hulbert.[2] Courtneidge plays the matriarch of a music hall family, in a plot that switches between the Victorian era and the 1930s present.

Filming began in August 1932. It was shot at Islington, Beaconsfield and Welwyn Studios.[3] The film's art direction is by Alex Vetchinsky. It was popular enough to be re-issued in 1939.

  1. ^ "Soldiers of the King (1933)". BFI. Archived from the original on 3 August 2016.
  2. ^ Sutton p.202
  3. ^ Wood p.76