The King's Cup

This article is about the 1933 UK film. For the 1919 Inter-Services and Dominions Rugby Championship, see The King's Cup. For other uses, see King's Cup (disambiguation).

The King's Cup
Chili Bouchier & Harry Milton
Directed by	Donald Macardle Herbert Wilcox Robert Cullen Alan Cobham (Flying Scenes Co-ordinator)
Produced by	Herbert Wilcox
Written by	Alan Cobham
Starring	Chili Bouchier Harry Milton William Kendall
Music by	Lew Stone
Cinematography	Freddie Young
Production company	Herbert Wilcox Productions (for) British & Dominions Film Corporation
Distributed by	Woolf & Freedman Film Service (Uk)
Release dates	January 1933 (1933-01)
Running time	76 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The King's Cup is a 1933 British drama film directed by Alan Cobham, Donald Macardle, Herbert Wilcox and Robert Cullen and starring Chili Bouchier, Harry Milton and William Kendall.^[1] The film is named after the King’s Cup Air Race, established by King George V in 1922 as an endurance race across Britain, to encourage development in engine design and the sport of aviation. Stars Chili Bouchier and Harry Milton were married at the time the film was made.^[2]

Plot summary

A pilot who has lost his nerve following an accident regains it after meeting a woman and goes on to win a major air race.

Cast

Chili Bouchier – Betty Conway
Harry Milton – Dick Carter
William Kendall – Captain Richards
Rene Ray – Peggy
Tom Helmore – Ronnie
Lewis Shaw – Peter
Sydney King – Crasher
Leila Page – Lena
Syd Crossley – Crossley
Lew Stone – Himself

Critical reception

TV Guide gave the film one out of four stars, and wrote, "the novelty of four directors did nothing out of the ordinary in terms of what appears on the screen." ^[3] while The Cinema Museum noted "a tantalizing glimpse of the (Brooklands) airfield and some of the flying that took place there before the Second World War." ^[2]

References

↑ BFI | Film & TV Database | The KING'S CUP (1933). Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk (16 April 2009).
1 2 "The Cinema Museum and Brooklands Museum present The King's Cup (1933) » The Cinema Museum, London".
↑ "The King's Cup".

External links

The King's Cup at the Internet Movie Database

The films of Herbert Wilcox

Chu-Chin-Chow (1923)
Southern Love (1924)
Decameron Nights (1924)
Nell Gwyn (1926)
London (1926)
Mumsie (1927)
Tip Toes (1927)
Madame Pompadour (1927)
The Only Way (1927)
Dawn (1928)
The Bondman (1929)
The Woman in White (1929)
The Loves of Robert Burns (1930)
The Chance of a Night Time (1931)
Carnival (1931)
The Blue Danube (1932)
Goodnight, Vienna (1932)
Money Means Nothing (1932)
The King's Cup (1933)
The Little Damozel (1933)
Bitter Sweet (1933)
Yes, Mr Brown (1933)
The Queen's Affair (1934)
Nell Gwyn (1934)
Peg of Old Drury (1935)
This'll Make You Whistle (1936)
Three Maxims (1936)
London Melody (1937)
Limelight (1937)
Victoria the Great (1937)
Sixty Glorious Years (1938)
Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)
Irene (1940)
No, No, Nanette (1940)
Sunny (1941)
They Flew Alone (1942)
Forever and a Day (1943)
Yellow Canary (1943)
I Live in Grosvenor Square (1945)
Piccadilly Incident (1946)
The Courtneys of Curzon Street (1947)
Spring in Park Lane (1948)
Elizabeth of Ladymead (1948)
Maytime in Mayfair (1949)
Odette (1950)
Into the Blue (1950)
The Lady with a Lamp (1951)
Derby Day (1952)
Trent's Last Case (1952)
Laughing Anne (1953)
Trouble in the Glen (1954)
Lilacs in the Spring (1954)
King's Rhapsody (1955)
My Teenage Daughter (1956)
These Dangerous Years (1957)
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1958)
Wonderful Things! (1958)
The Lady Is a Square (1959)
The Heart of a Man (1959)

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