Almost a Honeymoon is a 1930 British

Cinema of the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...

 comedy film

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 directed by Monty Banks

Monty Banks

Montague Banks was a comedian and film director. In the 1920s, he worked in Hollywood, starring in many silent short comedies and in the feature-length action thriller Play Safe...

 and starring Clifford Mollison

Clifford Mollison

Clifford Lely Mollison was a British film and television actor. He was married to the actress Avril Wheatley. His younger brother was the actor Henry Mollison.-Selected filmography:* The Lucky Number...

, Dodo Watts

Dodo Watts

Dodo Watts was a British film actress. Her birth name was Dorothy Margaret Watts.-Selected filmography:* Auld Lang Syne * School for Scandal * Almost a Honeymoon * The Man from Chicago...

 and Donald Calthrop

Donald Calthrop

Donald Calthrop was an English stage and film actor. He starred as the title character in the hit musical The Boy in 1917. He then appeared in 63 films between 1916 and 1940, including five films directed by Alfred Hitchcock.He was born in London and died in Eton from a heart attack.He was the...

. It was based on the play Almost a Honeymoon

Almost a Honeymoon (play)

Almost a Honeymoon is a 1930 play by Walter Ellis. It debuted at the Garrick Theatre in London and later enjoyed a successful run at the Apollo Theatre. A farce it concerns a young man who has secured a lucrative post in the colonial service...

by Walter Ellis. A second adaptation

Almost a Honeymoon (1938 film)

Almost a Honeymoon is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Norman Lee and starring Tommy Trinder, Linden Travers and Edmund Breon. It was based on the 1930 play Almost a Honeymoon by Walter Ellis...

 was made in 1938. It was made by British International Pictures at their Elstree Studios

Elstree Studios

"Elstree Studios" refers to any of several film studios that were based in the towns of Borehamwood and Elstree in Hertfordshire, England, since film production begun in 1927.-Name:...

. An ambitious young man secures a job in the colonial service, the only stipulation being that he needs to be married which he isn't. He has just twenty four hours to find a woman to persuade to marry him.

Cast

• Clifford Mollison
  Clifford Mollison
  Clifford Lely Mollison was a British film and television actor. He was married to the actress Avril Wheatley. His younger brother was the actor Henry Mollison.-Selected filmography:* The Lucky Number...
  
   - Basil Dibley
• Dodo Watts
  Dodo Watts
  Dodo Watts was a British film actress. Her birth name was Dorothy Margaret Watts.-Selected filmography:* Auld Lang Syne * School for Scandal * Almost a Honeymoon * The Man from Chicago...
  
   - Rosalie Quilter
• Lamont Dickson - Cuthbert de Gray
• Donald Calthrop
  Donald Calthrop
  Donald Calthrop was an English stage and film actor. He starred as the title character in the hit musical The Boy in 1917. He then appeared in 63 films between 1916 and 1940, including five films directed by Alfred Hitchcock.He was born in London and died in Eton from a heart attack.He was the...
  
   - Charles, the butler
• C.M. Hallard
  C.M. Hallard
  -Selected filmography:* Mrs. Thompson * The Case of Lady Camber * A Light Woman * Compromising Daphne * Tell England * The Chinese Puzzle * Royal Cavalcade * Moscow Nights...
  
   - Sir James Jephson
• Winifred Hall - Lavinia Pepper
• Pamela Carme - Margaret Brett
• Edward Thane - Clutterbuck