Leave It to Me is a 1930 British short comedy film directed by George King and starring Robin Irvine, Dorothy Seacombe and A. Bromley Davenport. It was written by Billie Bristow and Patrick L. Mannock, and was made at Twickenham Studios as a quota quickie for Fox Film.
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Preservation status
The British Film Institute National Archive holds a collection of ephemera and stills but no film or video materials.
Cast
Robin Irvine as Larry
Dorothy Seacombe as Mrs Jordan
A. Bromley Davenport as Mr Jordan
Harold Huth as Slade
Joan Wyndham as Ann Jordan
Frank Stanmore as Merton
Tom Helmore as Tony
Fanny Wright as housekeeper
Reception
Film Weekly wrote: "This is a very slight comedy, lacking both punch and bright incidents, built around the fake burglary which Larry arranges in order to supply Merton with five thousand pounds he was promised to get for him. Slowness of development and too much dialogue prevent this picture from being really entertaining."
Kine Weekly wrote: "Conventional comedy, rather rambling in construction. ... Robin Irvine is quite good as Larry, but the best performance comes from A. Bromley Davenport as Jordan. ... The story is slight and the production is not slick enough to carry it over. There is too much aimless talking where fast action is what is required."
The Daily Film Renter wrote: "British picture of very light story texture, but handled effectively enough, in a comedy vein, to make it a useful second feature, and, as a Quota film, likely to be useful to most exhibitors. While it scarcely equals that decidedly bright first film, Too Many Crooks (to which it has a sort of distant family likeness), this George King effort has the merits of very fair incidental comedy and generally adequate acting."