The Laughter of Fools is a 1933 British drama film directed by Adrian Brunel and starring D. A. Clarke-Smith, Derrick De Marney and Helen Ferrers. It was based on a play by H. F. Maltby. The screenplay concerns an ambitious mother who plans to marry her daughter to a sea captain.
The film was a quota quickie made at Nettlefold Studios in Walton by the independent producer George Smith as part of a contract from Fox who needed a supply of films to distribute in order to comply with the terms of the quota.
Cast
D. A. Clarke-Smith as Plunket
Derrick De Marney as Captain Vidal
Helen Ferrers as Mrs. Gregg
Eliot Makeham as John Gregg
Granville Ferrier as Hughes Sr. Pat Paterson as Doris Gregg Minnie Taylor as Elizabeth George Thirlwell as Bertie Gregg Dorothy Vernon as Cook Fred Withers as Nuttall
Bibliography
Chibnall, Steve. Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' film. British Film Institute, 2007. Low, Rachael. History of the British Film: Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.