The Brown Wallet

The Brown Wallet
trade poster
Directed byMichael Powell
Written byIan Dalrymple
Based onshort story by Stacy Aumonier
Produced byIrving Asher
StarringPatric Knowles
CinematographyBasil Emmott
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • 20 July 1936 (1936-07-20)
Running time
68 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Brown Wallet is a 1936 British crime film, directed by Michael Powell and starring Patric Knowles. The Brown Wallet, adapted from a short story by Stacy Aumonier, was one of over 20 quota quickies directed by Powell between 1931 and 1936. It is among eleven of these films of which no extant print is known to survive, and its current status is "missing, believed lost".[1]

Plot

Publisher John Gillespie faces a financial crisis after his business partner skips town with all the firm's assets. Facing ruin, he reluctantly approaches a wealthy aunt for assistance but is met with a stony-faced refusal. Returning home in a taxi, he finds a wallet containing £2,000 left behind by a previous passenger. He takes the wallet, but rather than confiding in his wife he rents a room in which he secretes the money, telling her he needs the room for business purposes.

Shortly afterwards his aunt is found murdered, with her safe having been broken into and robbed. Gillespie is the prime suspect, and wary of incriminating himself with regard to the £2,000 and unwilling to face having to surrender the cash, his story is deemed unsatisfactory and he is arrested and charged with murder. However, a former employee of his aunt makes his own investigation into the case and discovers the real culprit. Gillespie is released, then discovers he has been bequeathed a large sum of money in his aunt's will. He can then return the wallet and the £2,000 to its rightful owner.

Cast

  • Patric Knowles as John Gillespie
  • Nancy O'Neil as Eleanor
  • Henry Caine as Simmonds
  • Henrietta Watson as Aunt Mary
  • Charlotte Leigh as Miss Barton
  • Shayle Gardner as Wotherspoone
  • Edward Dalby as Minting
  • Eliot Makeham as Hobday
  • Bruce Winston as Julian Thorpe
  • Jane Millican as Miss Bloxham

References

  1. ^ Mark Duguid. "Early Michael Powell". BFI Screen Online. Retrieved 8 January 2010.

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