The Love Contract

{{short description|1932 film}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}} {{Use British English|date=May 2016}} {{Infobox film | name = The Love Contract | image =The Love Contract.png | caption =Winifred Shotter and Owen Nares | director = [[Herbert Selpin]] | producer = [[Herbert Wilcox]] | writer = [[Jean de Létraz]] (play) Suzette Desty (play) Roger Blum (play) [[Georg C. Klaren]] Heinz Goldberg | starring = [[Winifred Shotter]] [[Owen Nares]] [[Sunday Wilshin]] [[Miles Malleson]] | music = [[Ralph Benatzky]] | cinematography = [[Cyril Bristow]] | editing = | studio = [[British and Dominions Film Corporation]] | distributor = [[Woolf & Freedman Film Service]] | released = {{Film date|1932|07|28|df=yes}} | runtime = 80 minutes | country = United Kingdom | language = English | budget = }} '''''The Love Contract''''' is a 1932 British [[musical film]] directed by [[Herbert Selpin]] and starring [[Winifred Shotter]], [[Owen Nares]] and [[Sunday Wilshin]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/40815 |title=BFI | Film & TV Database | The LOVE CONTRACT (1932) |date= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090117085603/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/40815 |accessdate=2021-06-12|archive-date=17 January 2009 }}</ref> The screenplay concerns a young woman who becomes the driver of a wealthy [[stockbroker]] who lost her family's savings. It was based on a play by [[Jean de Letraz]], Suzette Desty and Roger Blum. It was produced by [[Herbert Wilcox]]'s company [[British & Dominions Film Corporation]].<ref>Sutton p.263</ref> Alternate language versions were made in French (''[[Conduisez-moi Madame]]'') and in German (''[[Chauffeur Antoinette]]''), both of which were also directed by Selpin.

==Cast== * [[Winifred Shotter]] as Antoinette * [[Owen Nares]] as Neville Cardington * [[Sunday Wilshin]] as Mrs. Savage * [[Miles Malleson]] as Peters * [[Gibb McLaughlin]] as Hodge * [[Spencer Trevor]] as Mr. Savage * [[Frank Harvey (English screenwriter)|Frank Harvey]] as Bank Manager * [[Cosmo Kyrle Bellew]] as Sir George

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Sutton, David R. ''A chorus of raspberries: British film comedy 1929-1939''. University of Exeter Press, 2000.

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0023156}}

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