The Night Porter is a 1930 British comedy film directed by Sewell Collins and starring Donald Calthrop, Trilby Clark and Gerald Rawlinson. It was produced as a quota quickie for release as a second feature. It was based on a popular music hall sketch by Fred Rome and Harry Wall depicting a honeymooning couple and the hotel night porter they encounter.
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Plot summary
George, the inebriate night porter at the Hotel Splendide, develops a series of increasingly outlandish suspicions about Billy and Percy, two guests who have arrived separately yet claim to be a married couple and demand to share a room together, and he believes they are jewel thieves.
Cast
Donald Calthrop as George, the night porter
Trilby Clark as Billy Bardolph, the wife
Gerald Rawlinson as Percy Pink, the husband
Barbara Gott as Mrs Ramsbotham
Tom Shale as Jim, the day porter
Anna Ludmilla
Production
The film was made by Gaumont British Picture Corporation, an affiliate of Gainsborough Pictures, at the Lime Grove Studios with sets designed by Andrew Mazzei.
Reception
Kine Weekly wrote: "The music-hall sketch has been slightly embellished in order to make this into a feature, and this results in it becoming a little tedious at times. It must be said, however, that in the circumstances Donald Calthrop does extraordinarily well and is sufficiently good to make the picture a safe comedy booking."