First Technicolor movie shot in the British Isles, features Gypsies, horse racing, singing and romance.First Technicolor movie shot in the British Isles, features Gypsies, horse racing, singing and romance.First Technicolor movie shot in the British Isles, features Gypsies, horse racing, singing and romance.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
Edward Underdown
- Don Diego
- (as Teddy Underdown)
R.C. Lyle
- Racing Commentator
- (as Captain R.C. Lyle)
Philip Frost
- Valentine - as a Youth (Prologue)
- (as Philip Sydney Frost)
Evelyn Ankers
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
Frank Crawshaw
- Gypsy
- (uncredited)
- Directors
- Harold D. Schuster
- Glenn Tryon(uncredited)
- Writers
- Dorothea Donn-Byrne
- Thomas J. Geraghty(uncredited)
- John Meehan(uncredited)
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- TriviaThe first three-strip Technicolor movie shot in Europe; completed in 1936, and bearing a 1936 (MCMXXXVI) copyright statement on the title card, but not released until 1937.
- GoofsWhen disguised as a male, Annabella's hair is cut short and unwaved; once her femininity is revealed, her hair immediately grows to a permanently-waved shoulder-length style, fresh from a non-existent salon.
- SoundtracksBelieve Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms
(uncredited)
Traditional
Words by Thomas Moore
Performed by John McCormack
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While Korda was in the process of constructing his own Technicolor processing plant at Denham he in the meantime provided his studio facilities for this pioneering project, the very first Technicolor feature made outside Hollywood.
Inevitably it's quite a hybrid, with an American director and cameraman, an American leading man pretending to be Canadian and a French leading lady pretending to be a Spanish gypsy pretending to be a lad (a deception partly facilitated by wearing slightly less rouge on her cheeks than in the rest of the film).
Since most of the exteriors were shot in Ireland the colour scheme is inevitably predominantly green, but colour is occasionally used at the service of the narrative as when the heroine is spectacularly transformed by slipping into a burgundy gown, the progress by jockey Steve Donohue in the Epsom Derby is made possible to follow by his ochre shirt, followed by the dramatic climactic appearance of the bright red objection flag.
Archival interest is provided by the partiticipation of tenor John McCormack and tipster Ras Prince Monolulu.
Inevitably it's quite a hybrid, with an American director and cameraman, an American leading man pretending to be Canadian and a French leading lady pretending to be a Spanish gypsy pretending to be a lad (a deception partly facilitated by wearing slightly less rouge on her cheeks than in the rest of the film).
Since most of the exteriors were shot in Ireland the colour scheme is inevitably predominantly green, but colour is occasionally used at the service of the narrative as when the heroine is spectacularly transformed by slipping into a burgundy gown, the progress by jockey Steve Donohue in the Epsom Derby is made possible to follow by his ochre shirt, followed by the dramatic climactic appearance of the bright red objection flag.
Archival interest is provided by the partiticipation of tenor John McCormack and tipster Ras Prince Monolulu.
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- Runtime1 hour 27 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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