A few days ago I mentioned an old film I'd seen called Once in a New Moon. I said that, although not as good as the best Ealing comedies made years later it was still watchable. One of the Ealing comedies I had in mind was Passport to Pimlico. One of the leads in Passport to Pimlico was Stanley Holloway.
Although some of Stanley Holloway's films are worth watching, his 1937 film The Vicar of Bray is not one of them. I saw it years ago and hope not to see it again. It was directed by a Henry Edwards. That was the last film he directed and he went back into acting. I wonder why The film was produced by a Julius Hagen. Looking at the films he produced I saw a 1932 film called The Lodger. That was directed by Maurice Elvey who made a lot of British films and was quite a well known director. That 1932 The Lodger starred Ivor Novello.
The Lodger had been made before as a silent film in 1927 also with Ivor Novello. That is a film I've seen and is possibly the first really important British film made as it's the first Alfred Hitchcock film which can be regarded as a Hitchock film. The film he made before that was The Mountain Eagle I mentioned above.
How I got from Once in a New Moon to The Mountain Eagle