The Laughter of Fools is a 1933 British drama film directed by Adrian Brunel and starring D. A. Clarke-Smith, Derrick De Marney and Helen Ferrers. It was based on a play by H. F. Maltby. The screenplay concerns an ambitious mother who plans to marry her daughter to a sea captain.

The film was a quota quickie made at Nettlefold Studios in Walton by the independent producer George Smith as part of a contract from Fox who needed a supply of films to distribute in order to comply with the terms of the quota.

• D. A. Clarke-Smith as Plunket
• Derrick De Marney as Captain Vidal
• Helen Ferrers as Mrs. Gregg
• Eliot Makeham as John Gregg
• Granville Ferrier as Hughes Sr.
• Pat Paterson as Doris Gregg
• Minnie Taylor as Elizabeth
• George Thirlwell as Bertie Gregg
• Dorothy Vernon as Cook
• Fred Withers as Nuttall

• 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.

• The Laughter of Fools at IMDb

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