Spring in Park Lane

Spring in Park Lane
Directed byHerbert Wilcox
Written byNicholas Phipps
Based onCome Out of the Kitchen
by Alice Duer Miller
Produced byHerbert Wilcox
StarringAnna Neagle
Michael Wilding
Tom Walls
Peter Graves
CinematographyMax Greene
Edited byFrank Clarke
Music byRobert Farnon
Production
company
Wilcox-Neagle Productions
Distributed byBritish Lion Film Corporation
Release date
  • 17 March 1948 (1948-03-17)
Running time
91 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£238,000[1][2]
Box office£358,788(UK; profit margin returned to the distributor)[3] or $1.8 million (UK gross)[4]

Spring in Park Lane is a 1948 British romantic comedy film produced and directed by Herbert Wilcox which starred Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding and Tom Walls. Part of a series of films partnering Neagle and Wilding, it was the top film at the British box office in 1948 and remains the most popular entirely British-made film ever in terms of all-time attendance. It was shot at the Elstree Studios of MGM British, with sets designed by the art director William C. Andrews. Some location shooting also took place in London.

  1. ^ Harper, Sue; Porter, Vincent (2003). British Cinema of The 1950s The Decline of Deference. Oxford University Press USA. p. 275.
  2. ^ Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 354
  3. ^ Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 20 No 4, 2000
  4. ^ "British Lion Quarter to NY on Wanger Deal". Variety. 3 November 1948. p. 3.