Aren’t Men Beasts *** (1937, Robertson Hare, Alfred Drayton, Billy Milton, June Clyde, Ellen Pollock) – Classic Movie Review 10,341

Robertson Hare is particularly hilarious in director Graham Cutts’s 1937 comedy Aren’t Men Beasts?, a fast-paced, inventive slice of Thirties British silly fun, based on the play by Vernon Sylvaine, which still delivers the laughs if you make allowances for the obviously slightly dated, stagey production.

Funny farceurs Hare and Alfred Drayton are on good form for this amusing antique British comedy about a British dentist called Herbert Holly (Hare) posing as his family’s maiden aunt to ensure that his groom-to-be son (Billy Milton) gets married to his fiancée (June Clyde), after a major hiccup when a French floozy girl of easy virtue (Ellen Pollock) arrives the day before the wedding to accuse the boy of infidelity and of being a beast.

Also in the cast are Judy Kelly, Ruth Maitland, Frank Royde, Amy Veness, Victor Stanley, Charles Mortimer, Frederick Morant, Anne Boyd, Kathleen Harrison, and James Hayter.

Aren’t Men Beasts is directed by Graham Cutts, runs 66 minutes, is made by British International Pictures, is released by Associated British Film Distributors (1937) (UK), is written by Marjorie Deans and William Freshman, based on the play by Vernon Sylvaine, is shot in black and white by Roy Kellino, is produced by Walter C Mycroft, and designed by John Mead.

It is shot at British International Pictures Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England.

It is released on DVD by Network in a double bill with Banana Ridge, also starring Hare and Drayton.

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