Partners Please

Partners Please
Tony Simpson and Pat Paterson (seated) in the film
Directed byLloyd Richards
Written byCharles Bennett
StarringPat Paterson
Tony Simpson
Ronald Ward
Binnie Barnes
Production
company
Producers Distributing Corporation
Release date
  • 7 June 1932 (1932-06-07) (UK)
Running time
34 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Partners Please is a 1932 British musical comedy film directed by Lloyd Richards and starring Pat Paterson, Tony Simpson, Ronald Ward and Binnie Barnes. It was written by Charles Bennett and shot at Cricklewood Studios as a quota quickie.

Preservation status

The British Film Institute National Archive holds a collection of stills but no film or video materials.

Plot

Hard-up peer Archie Dawlish has invested all his money on the stock market. When the value of his investments crashes he gets a job as a gigolo in a night-club. He proves so popular there that his fiancee Angela realises that the only way to be near him is to become a dancing-partner-for-hire at the club. Subsequently the club is raided and Archie loses his job, but by good fortune his shares increase in value again, and he and Angela can be wed.

Cast

Reception

Film Weekly wrote: "A slender story is set to dance music in this unpretentious featurette. Tony Simpson is as good as can be expected in the role of the vacuous Archie, while Pat Paterson plays up to him moderately well. Frederick Moyes is ineffective as a heavy father. Just fair light entertainment for the unexacting."

Kine Weekly wrote: "Tony Simpson as Archie makes the best of a vapid character, while Pat Paterson competently plays the role of Angela. Ronald Ward is good as the scheming Eric ... Lloyd Richards' direction of the unpretentious story on musical comedy lines is straightforward in manner."

The Daily Film Renter wrote: "Forced humour of well-tried type put across in not very entertaining way. Cast have no chance to shine. ."

References

  1. 1 2 "Partners Please". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 16 June 2026.
  2. ↑ "BFI | Film & TV Database | Partners Please (1932)". ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 29 January 2009. Retrieved 16 June 2026.
  3. ↑ Chibnall, Steve (2007). Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' Film. British Film Institute. p. 269. ISBN 978-1844571550.
  4. 1 2 "Partners Please". Film Weekly. 7 (193): 30. 24 June 1932. ProQuest 1705173565.
  5. ↑ "Partners Please". Kine Weekly. 182 (1303): 32. 7 April 1932. ProQuest 2322674001.
  6. ↑ "Partners Please". The Daily Film Renter (1600): 6. 1 April 1932. ProQuest 3127049389.