Kicking the Moon Around
United Kingdom
1938
78 Min
Black and White
1.37:1
English
Synopsis
Ambrose, a millionaire investor who just found out he’s struck it rich with another great investment that paid off big, decides to test his fiance Pepper by pretending he’s gone bankrupt and is worthless or worse! Naturally she doesn’t find it so amusing and calls the whole thing off. This amid his “tramps parade” party where the elite meets the street and hobnobs it with the hoi-polloi featuring among a couple of charming song and dance numbers by Harry Richman including You’re What’s the Matter With Me… Ambrose finds love for a song in the record shop girl who he “discovers” by cutting her a record that breaks up his sceptic pals. Primadonna Pepper the next aspiring Hepburn-wannabe is tricked into thinking she has a film contract awaiting in Hollywood, only to catch Ambrose’s sidekick and secretary play-acting producers on the phone in the next room! Meanwhile workers of the world unite in the park to rally against the oppression of the masses when it is discovered that the good natured accordianist who plays the cheer-up song to the tune of March Militaire is the shop girl’s uncle she has to bail out every so often. —IMDb
Director
Walter Forde
British director Walter Forde started his show-business career on the stage of the music halls of northern England. He entered the film business as a screenwriter but became an actor in 1920, in a series of two-reel comedies he wrote himself. He spent some time in Hollywood, but not much happened and he came back to Britain in 1925. He went to work for Gainsborough and began directing. The studio was impressed with the results, and began to hand him its “A”-list projects. Several of his films, such as The Ghost Train (1931) and Der Würger kommt um Mitternacht (1931), were well received by critics. He worked in a variety of genres, most comedies, but he turned out the occasional thriller or mystery. His star began to wane during the war years, and his post-war films didn’t live up to his pre-war ones. He made his last film in 1949. He died in 1987 at age 84 in Los Angeles, California. —IMDb
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