Spring Handicap Explained

Spring Handicap
Producer:	Walter C. Mycroft
Starring:	Will Fyffe Maire O'Neill Billy Milton Aileen Marson
Cinematography:	Otto Kanturek
Editing:	Lionel Tomlinson
Studio:	Associated British Picture Corporation
Runtime:	69 minutes^[1]
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English

Spring Handicap is a 1937 British comedy film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Will Fyffe, Maire O'Neill and Billy Milton.^[2] The film was made by the Associated British Picture Corporation at their Elstree Studios and based on the play The Last Coupon by Ernest E. Bryan.

Premise

A wife tries to prevent her husband, a miner, from gambling away the money he receives as an inheritance.

Cast

• Will Fyffe as Jack Clayton
• Maire O'Neill as Meg Clayton
• Billy Milton as Len Redpath
• Aileen Marson as Barbara Clayton
• Frank Pettingell as Scullion
• David Burns as Amos
• Hugh Miller as Selby
• Beatrice Varley as Mrs. Tulip
• Wilfrid Hyde White as Hawkins (uncredited)

Bibliography

• Chibnall, Steve. Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' film. British Film Institute, 2007.
• Low, Rachael. History of the British Film: Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985 .
• Warren, Patricia. Elstree: The British Hollywood. Columbus Books, 1998.

Notes and References

1. Chibnall p.297
2. Web site: Spring Handicap. https://web.archive.org/web/20120711234209/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6b718964. dead. 2012-07-11. BFI.