French Leave (1930 film)

French Leave
Haddon Mason & Madeleine Carroll
Directed byJack Raymond
Written byReginald Berkeley (play and screenplay)
W. P. Lipscomb
Produced byHenry Defries
Sam Harrison
StarringMadeleine Carroll
Sydney Howard
Arthur Chesney
CinematographyBernard Knowles
Production
company
D&H Productions
Distributed bySterling Films
Release date
  • 21 August 1930 (1930-08-21) (London UK)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

French Leave is a 1930 British comedy film directed by Jack Raymond and starring Madeleine Carroll, Sydney Howard and Arthur Chesney.[1] It was made at British and Dominions Elstree Studios.[2] It is based on a play by Reginald Berkeley, a "light comedy in three acts", set during the First World War.[3] It was remade in 1937 by Norman Lee.[4]

  1. ^ "French Leave". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 18 August 2016. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  2. ^ Wood p.69.
  3. ^ Wintour, Barry (25 April 2014). Britain and the Great War, 1914-1918: A Subject Bibliography of Some Selected Aspects. Lulu.com. ISBN 9780992808105 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ "French Leave (1937)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 18 August 2016. Retrieved 11 September 2018.