We're Going to Be Rich

We're Going to Be Rich
We're Going to Be Rich
	Publicity brochure
Directed by	Monty Banks
Written by	Sam Hellman ; Rohama Siegel ; James Edward Grant
Produced by	Samuel G. Engel
Starring	Gracie Fields ; Victor McLaglen ; Brian Donlevy
Cinematography	Mutz Greenbaum
Music by	Bretton Byrd
Production; company	Twentieth Century Fox
Distributed by	Twentieth Century Fox
Release date	3 July 1938;
Running time	78 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	£307,441

We're Going to Be Rich is a 1938 British historical musical comedy film directed by Monty Banks and starring Gracie Fields, Victor McLaglen and Brian Donlevy.

Plot

During the 1880s Kit Dobson, an English music hall singer performing in Australia, has scraped together enough money to buy a passage home to Britain with plans to settle down. However, unknown to her, her unreliable boyfriend has used most of the money to buy a gold mine in South Africa. They arrive in Gold Rush Johannesburg only to find that they have been swindled. The only option left for them is for Kit to seek a job singing in a saloon run by an American known as Yankee Gordon.

Cast

Gracie Fields as Kit Dobson
Victor McLaglen as Dobbie
Brian Donlevy as Yankee Gordon
Coral Browne as Pearl
Ted Smith as Tim
Gus McNaughton as Broderick
Charles Carson as Keeler
Syd Crossley as Jake
Hal Gordon as Charlie
Robert Nainby as Judge
Charles Harrison as Rat Face
Tom Payne as Kinch
Don McCorkindale as Killer
Joe Mott as Manager
Alex Davies as Kimberley Kid

Production

The film was the first made following Fields switch from Ealing Studios to 20th Century Fox. It was shot at Denham Studios.^[2] It was made with a budget of $500,000.^[3]

References

^ Chapman, Llewella. "'The highest salary ever paid to a human being': Creating a Database of Film Costs from the Bank of England". Journal of British cinema and television, 2022-10. Vol. 19, no. 4. Edinburgh University Press. p. 470-494 at 487.
^ Wood p.97
^ Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 240

Bibliography

Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

External links

We're Going to Be Rich at IMDb

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[1] Chapman, Llewella. "'The highest salary ever paid to a human being': Creating a Database of Film Costs from the Bank of England". Journal of British cinema and television, 2022-10. Vol. 19, no. 4. Edinburgh University Press. p. 470-494 at 487.

[2] Wood p.97

[3] Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 240

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