''Guilty Melody'' is a 1936 British

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...

directed by

Richard Pottier Richard Pottier (6 June 1906, Graz – 2 November 1994, Le Plessis-Bouchard) was an Austrian-born French film director. He was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire as Ernst Deutsch. Selected filmography * ''A Rare Bird'' (1935) * ''Fanfare of Love ...

and starring Don Alcaide,

Gitta Alpar Gitta may refer to: Places *Gitta, Hsawlaw, village in Burma *Gita, Israel, communal settlement in Israel People *Gitta Alpár (1903–1991), Hungarian opera singer *Gitta Bauer (1919–1990), German journalist * Gitta Connemann (born 1964), German ...

and John Loder. It was based on a short story by Hans José Rehfisch. In the film, a British spy falls in love with a singer whose husband is working for the enemy. It was made at

Ealing Studios Ealing Studios is a television and film production company and facilities provider at Ealing Green in West London. Will Barker bought the White Lodge on Ealing Green in 1902 as a base for film making, and films have been made on the site ever ...

by the

independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independe ...

company Franco London Films.Wood p.90 The film's sets were designed by art director Holmes Paul. A separate French-language version ''

Disk 413 ''Disk 413'' (french: Le disque 413) is a 1936 French spy film directed by Richard Pottier and starring Gitta Alpar, Constant Rémy and Jules Berry. It was the French version of the British film '' Guilty Melody''.Fawkes p. 211 Cast * Gitta Alpa ...

'' was also made.

Cast

* Don Alcaide as Duke of Mantua *

as Marguerite Salvini *

Arty Ash Arty Ash, real name Arthur Richard Dodge (14 April 1895 – 6 February 1954) was a British actor. He is well known for appearing with Leslie Sarony in ''Clonk!'' (1928), a short comedy film made in the Phonofilm sound-on-film process. Ash was bo ...

as Inspector Bartle *

Nils Asther Nils Anton Alfhild Asther (17 January 1897 – 19 October 1981)Swedi ...

as Galloni *

Coral Browne Coral Edith Browne (23 July 1913 – 29 May 1991) was an Australian-American stage and screen actress. Her extensive theatre credits included Broadway productions of ''Macbeth'' (1956), '' The Rehearsal'' (1963) and ''The Right Honourable Gentl ...

as Cecile * Clifford Buckton as Police Inspector * Robert English as Chief Inspector *

Ethel Griffies Ethel Griffies (born Ethel Woods; 26 April 1878 – 9 September 1975) was an English actress of stage, screen, and television. She is remembered for portraying the ornithologist Mrs. Bundy in Alfred Hitchcock's classic '' The Birds'' (1963). Sh ...

as Lady Rochester * John Loder as Richard Carter

References

Bibliography

* Low, Rachael. ''Filmmaking in 1930s Britain''. George Allen & Unwin, 1985. * Wood, Linda. ''British Films, 1927-1939''. British Film Institute, 1986.

External links

* 1936 films British spy drama films 1936 drama films 1930s spy drama films 1930s English-language films Films directed by Richard Pottier Ealing Studios films Films based on short fiction British multilingual films British black-and-white films 1936 multilingual films 1930s British films {{1930s-UK-film-stub