It's a Boy!

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It's a Boy! - 1933 | 80 mins | Crime, Comedy | B&W

The Production Team

Director: Tim Whelan.
Producer: Michael Balcon.
Script: Austin Melford, Leslie Howard Gordon and John Paddy Carstairs. (from the play by Austin Melfford, Ernst Bach and Franz Arnold)
Cinematography: Mutz Greenbaum.
Art Direction: Alex Vetchinsky.

The Cast

Leslie Henson - James Skippett
Albert Burdon - Joe Piper
Edward Everett Horton - Dudley Leake
Heather Thatcher - Anita Gunn
Alfred Drayton - Eustace Bogle
Robertson Hare - Allister

Plot Synopsis

Amusing comedy adapted from a German stage play by Franz Arnold and Ernest Bach. On the eve of his wedding, Dudley Leake (Edward Everett Horton) is confronted by Joe Piper (Albert Burdon); a young man claiming to be his son and demanding money for his silence. His best man, Skippy (Leslie Henson) gets him through the wedding by passing the ‘son’ off as an author. It’s later discovered that the young man is nothing but an impostor and potential blackmailer.