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So This Is London

  • 1930
  • 1h 32m
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
27
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Will Rogers in So This Is London (1930)
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Hiram Draper is an all-American self-made man who profoundly dislikes everything British. Yet he must travel to London with his family. When Junior falls in love with an aristocratic girl, w... Read allHiram Draper is an all-American self-made man who profoundly dislikes everything British. Yet he must travel to London with his family. When Junior falls in love with an aristocratic girl, whose father despises Americans with equal intensity, fireworks are just about to start.Hiram Draper is an all-American self-made man who profoundly dislikes everything British. Yet he must travel to London with his family. When Junior falls in love with an aristocratic girl, whose father despises Americans with equal intensity, fireworks are just about to start.

  • Director
    • John G. Blystone
  • Writers
    • Owen Davis
    • Arthur F. Goodrich
    • Sonya Levien
  • Stars
    • Will Rogers
    • Irene Rich
    • Frank Albertson
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.7/10
    27
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • John G. Blystone
    • Writers
      • Owen Davis
      • Arthur F. Goodrich
      • Sonya Levien
    • Stars
      • Will Rogers
      • Irene Rich
      • Frank Albertson
    • 1User review
    • 2Critic reviews
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    Maureen O'Sullivan and Frank Albertson in So This Is London (1930)
    Maureen O'Sullivan and Frank Albertson in So This Is London (1930)
    Maureen O'Sullivan, Dorothy Christy, Mary Forbes, Irene Rich, and Will Rogers in So This Is London (1930)
    Will Rogers in So This Is London (1930)
    Maureen O'Sullivan and Frank Albertson in So This Is London (1930)
    Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Albertson, and Irene Rich in So This Is London (1930)
    Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Albertson, Irene Rich, and Will Rogers in So This Is London (1930)
    Will Rogers in So This Is London (1930)

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    Will Rogers
    Will Rogers
    • Hiram Draper
    Irene Rich
    Irene Rich
    • Mrs. Hiram Draper
    Frank Albertson
    Frank Albertson
    • Junior Draper
    Maureen O'Sullivan
    Maureen O'Sullivan
    • Elinor Worthing
    Lumsden Hare
    Lumsden Hare
    • Lord Percy Worthing
    Mary Forbes
    Mary Forbes
    • Lady Worthing
    Bramwell Fletcher
    Bramwell Fletcher
    • Alfred Honeycutt
    Dorothy Christy
    Dorothy Christy
    • Lady Amy Ducksworth
    Ellen Woonston
    • Nurse
    • (as Ellen Woodsten)
    Martha Lee Sparks
    • Little Girl
    • Director
      • John G. Blystone
    • Writers
      • Owen Davis(adaptation) (dialogue)
      • Arthur F. Goodrich(play)
      • Sonya Levien(scenario)
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    • Trivia
      Maureen O'Sullivan's first film made entirely in Hollywood after being discovered in Ireland during the production of Song o' My Heart (1930).
    • Connections
      Remade as So This Is London (1939)

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    Funny Will Rogers
    Will Rogers plays an American mill owner who has to go to England for business ... but he hates the English. So he rounds up his wife (Irene Rich) and his just graduated son (Frank Albertson) and makes the voyage cross the Atlantic. Onboard, Albertson meets a pretty English girl (Maureen O'Sullivan in her first American film) and the two fall in love ... while Rogers and Rich spend the trip with sea sickness.

    Of course O'Sullivan's parents are terrible snoots and hate Americans (Lumsden Hare, Mary Forbes) so when Lady Amy (Dorothy Christy invites them all for the weekend, you know it's not going to be good. While the snoots sit when dinner is announced, Rich comes galloping down stairs and yells, "Pa, the chow's on" at which point Rogers comes sliding down the banister letting out Indian war whoops. Once down, he and the missus do a war dance number. You get the idea.

    In the end the parents come to see eye to eye once all the charades are over but Rogers gets quite a few zingers in and tells some funny stories. It ends with the drunken Rogers and Hare bellowing "God Save the Queen" / "My Country 'Tis of Thee."
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    • Release date
      • June 6, 1930 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Production company
      • Fox Film Corporation
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 32 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White

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