Quiet Wedding
Quiet Wedding – 1941 | 80mins | Comedy | B&W
Plot Synopsis
Janet and Dallas become engaged and decide to have a quiet wedding, but their parents think otherwise. The fittings, the interfering relatives, local busybodies, the wedding rehearsal – all result in Janet becoming anxious. She quarrels with her mother, then with Dallas. The arrival of Aunt Mary removes the threat of a broken engagement; she advises Dallas to ‘kidnap’ Janet the night before the wedding. Dallas does so, and the young couple are reconciled. Arrested for dangerous driving by a dim country policeman on their way home, they finish up in the local police station. The family bails them out in time, and the ‘quiet wedding’ at last takes place.
Excerpt© ‘Puffin Asquith’ by R.J. Minney.
Production Team
Anthony Asquith: Director
Paul Sheriff : Art Direction
Bernard Knowles: Cinematography
Reginald Beck: Editing
Nicholas Brodsky: Music Direction
Paul Soskin: Producer
Anatole de Grunwald: Script
Terence Rattigan: Script
Cast
A.E. Matthews: Arthur Royd
Margaret Lockwood: Janet Royd
Derek Farr: Dallas Chaytor
Marjorie Fielding: Mildred Royd
Athene Seyler: Aunt Mary
Jean Cadell: Aunt Florence
Margaretta Scott: Marcia
David Tomlinson: John Royd
Peggy Ashcroft: Flower Lisle
Sidney King: Denys
Frank Cellier: Mr Clayton
Roland Culver: Boofy Ponsonby
Michael Shepley: Marcia\’s Husband
Muriel Pavlow: Miranda
Bernard Miles: PC
Margaret Rutherford: Magistrate
