Out of the Blue

Out of the Blue - 1931 | 88mins | Musical | B&W

The Production Team

Director: Gene Gerrard and John Orton.
Producer: John Maxwell.
Script: Bert Lee, Frank Miller and R.P. Weston. (from the play Little Tommy Tucker by Caswell Garth and Desmond Carter)
Cinematography: Arthur Crabtree and Ernest Palmer.

The Cast

Gene Gerrard - Bill Coverdale
Jessie Matthews - Tommy Tucker
Kay Hammond - Angela Tucker
Kenneth Kove - Freddie
Binnie Barnes - Rosa
David Miller - Sir Jeremy Tucker

Plot Synopsis

Lightweight musical-comedy vehicle for Gene Gerrard, his co-star Jessie Matthews would later become one of Britain’s biggest film stars. Tommy (Jessie Matthews) is the daughter of hard-up aristocrat Sir Jeremy (David Miller), she is a budding singer who falls in love with radio announcer Bill Coverdale (Gene Gerrard). Bill has somehow contrived to get himself engaged to her sister Angela (Kay Hammond), whom he doesn't love. It's all sorted out when the characters converge on a cabaret in Biarritz.