Love Lies is a 1932 British musical comedy film directed by Lupino Lane and starring Stanley Lupino, Dorothy Boyd and Jack Hobbs. It was written by Frank Miller based on the 1928 stage musical So This is Love! by Arthur Rigby and Lupino. It was made by British International Pictures at Elstree Studios.
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Plot
At a bullfight in Spain, Jerry Walker meets Junetta, who falls for him. Jerry flees the country, arriving home just too late for his friend Rolly Rider's wedding. Rolly's uncle arrives. Because the uncle fiercely objects to his nephew's marriage, Rolly pretends that his new bride, Joyce, is actually Jerry's wife. Then Jerry's own uncle shows up, accompanied by Junetta, whom he insists Jerry must marry. Following a series of comic misunderstandings the couples are sorted out, and Jerry marries Junetta.
Cast
Stanley Lupino as Jerry Walker
Dorothy Boyd as Joyce
Jack Hobbs as Rolly Rider
Dennis Hoey as Cyrus Watt
Binnie Barnes as Junetta
Sebastian Smith as Nicholas Wich
Wallace Lupino as Lord Lletgoe
Arty Ash as Butler
Charles Courtneidge as Inspector
Denis O'Neil as prison warder
Reception
Film Weekly wrote: "Stanley Lupino's first full length 'talkie,' made under the direction of his cousin, Lupino Lane, is one long laugh from start to finish. The humour is as pointed as a bayonet and as delicate as a gun-butt, but nevertheless, the, laughs are there... Whether you are a high, low or middle-brow, you will laugh – despite its faults – at this new British film, which moves with a speed unusual in pictures made this side of the Atlantic."
Kine Weekly wrote: "Depending entirely for its effect on the quips and tooling of the principals, this film, which is rather more in the nature of a musical comedy without songs than a farce, provides a very good hour's amusement. Stanley Lupino and Jack Hobbs put up some excellent scenes, and are well supported."
Picturegoer wrote: "A picture that relies not on its story, which is of the rapid musical-comedy variety, but on the wisecracks and knockabout efforts of the principal comedians. It is safe for an hour's entertainment if you do not go to it in too critical a mood or to simply to enjoy a good laugh – preferably after a good dinner."