Old Spanish Customers Explained

Old Spanish Customers
Director:	Lupino Lane
Producer:	John Maxwell
Based On:	story by Syd Courtenay & Lola Harvey
Starring:	Leslie Fuller Drusilla Wills Binnie Barnes
Music:	Musical direction: Idris Lewis
Cinematography:	Walter Harvey Stanley Rodwell
Editing:	E.B. Jarvis
Studio:	British International Pictures
Runtime:	67 minutes^[1]
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English

Old Spanish Customers is a 1932 British comedy film directed by Lupino Lane and starring Leslie Fuller, Binnie Barnes and Drusilla Wills.^[2] It was also known as Toreadors Don't Care. Val Guest has a small role; he later called the film "a terrible thing".^[3]

Plot

British couple Bill and Martha (Leslie Fuller and Drusilla Wills) win a trip to Spain and enjoy a series of adventures, with henpecked Bill mistaken for a famous toreador and ending up in a bullfight.

Cast

• Leslie Fuller as Bill Smithers
• Drusilla Wills as Martha Smithers
• Binnie Barnes as Carmen
• Wallace Lupino as Pedro
• Hal Gordon as Manuelito
• Ernest Sefton as Tormitio
• Hal Walters as Dancing partner
• Betty Fields

Critical reception

TV Guide noted "A formula plot which delivers predictable results," and gave the film two out of five stars^[4]

References

1. Web site: BRITISH COMEDIES OF THE 1930S VOLUME 6 - British Board of Film Classification. www.bbfc.co.uk.
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20090114132742/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/44910 BFI.org
3. Web site: Interview with Val Guest. British Entertainment History Project. Roy. Fowler. 1988.
4. Web site: Old Spanish Customers. TVGuide.com.

Bibliography

• Sutton, David R. A chorus of raspberries: British film comedy 1929-1939. University of Exeter Press, 2000.