Two Crowded Hours

Two Crowded Hours
John Longden (right) and Jerry Verno (centre)
Directed byMichael Powell
Written byJoseph Jefferson Farjeon
Produced byJerome Jackson
Henry Cohen
StarringJohn Longden
Jane Welsh
Jerry Verno
CinematographyGeoffrey Faithfull
Edited byArthur Seabourne
Distributed byFox Film Company (UK)
Twentieth Century-Fox (US)
Release dates
  • 8 July 1931 (1931-07-08) (London)
  • 28 December 1931 (1931-12-28) (UK)
Running time
43 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Two Crowded Hours is a 1931 British comedy drama film directed by Michael Powell and starring John Longden, Jane Welsh, and Jerry Verno. It was made as a Quota quickie and is the first film where Powell is credited as the director. No known copies of the film have survived to the present day, and Two Crowded Hours has been declared to be "Missing, Believed Lost" by the British Film Institute.[1]