Pearls Bring Tears

Aubrey Mallalieu wants to cut a deal with Mark Stone, but is shy a thousand pounds. So he offers his wife's pearls as security for the marginal sum, with a promise to redeem them after the weekend -- his wife needs the pearls back within a week. Stone gives them to wife Dorothy Boyd, who lends them to her friend, Googie Withers, who lends them to former boyfriend John Stuart... well, eventually they wind up with Annie Esmond, and the whole chain has to be unwound toute suite in a farcical fashion.

It's a Quota Quickie shot for distribution by Columbia pictures, and it's competently handled, if little more, by director H. Manning Haynes. The best scenes are those between Stuart and Miss Withers, but there's nothing wrong with anyone's performance.

First a few facts The £1000 in 1937 is the equivalent of £87000 in 2025.

Producer George Smith produced no less than 43 films between 1931 and 1940.

Around halfway through the film there is a scene in a jewellers workshop and the actor playing the assistant is Michael Ripper in his sixth out of 246 credited roles.

The film was made at Nettlefold Studios home to Robin Hood in later years.

It is quite an amusing Quota Quickie with John Stuart in a typical role in a prolific career.

Google Withers is credited fifth in the cast. On the way up to her stardom in the forties.

There is a comic subplot involving Syd Crossley and Hal Walker.