''An Obvious Situation'' is a 1930 British

crime film Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), dr ...

directed by Giuseppe Guarino and starring

Sunday Wilshin Sunday Wilshin (26 February 190519 March 1991) was a British actress and radio producer; the successor to George Orwell on his resignation in 1943. She was born in London as Mary Aline Wilshin (corroborated by publicly available birth records; o ...

, Walter Sondes, and Carl Harbord. It was made as a

quota quickie The Cinematograph Films Act 1927 ( 17 & 18 Geo. 5. c. 29) was an act of the UK Parliament designed to stimulate the declining British film industry. It received royal assent on 22 December 1927 and came into force on 1 April 1928. Description T ...

Teddington Studios Teddington Studios was a large British television studio in Teddington, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, providing studio facilities for programmes airing on the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky One and others. The complex also prov ...

for release by

Warner Brothers Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (WBEI), commonly known as Warner Bros. (WB), is an American filmed entertainment studio headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California and the main namesake subsidiary of Warner Bro ...

.Chibnall p.262

Cast

as Cella Stuart * Walter Sondes as John Stuart * Carl Harbord as Michael Turner * Marjorie Jennings as Betty Chase * Michael Hogan as Trimmett *

Iris Ashley Iris Blanche Stafford-Northcote (26 December 1909 – 5 January 1994), known as Iris Ashley, was an Irish-born British stage and film actress. Biography She was born in Trellis Cottage, Rushbrooke, Queenstown (now Cobh), County Cork, to Englis ...

as Babe Carson * Mina Burnett as Manette *

Harold Huth Harold Huth (20 January 1892 – 26 October 1967) was a British actor, film director and producer. Biography Early life He was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, in 1892. He was a nephew of Eva Moore and a cousin of the actor Roland Pertwee. F ...

as Gustave

References

Bibliography

* Chibnall, Steve. ''Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' Film''. British Film Institute, 2007. * Low, Rachael. ''Filmmaking in 1930s Britain''. George Allen & Unwin, 1985. * Wood, Linda. ''British Films, 1927-1939''. British Film Institute, 1986.

External links

* 1930 films British crime films British black-and-white films 1930 crime films Films directed by Giuseppe Guarino Films set in England Films shot at Teddington Studios Quota quickies Warner Bros. films 1930s English-language films 1930s British films English-language crime films {{1930s-UK-film-stub