Spring Meeting

This film was directed by Walter Mycroft who was head of production at Elstree studios during the thirties.For a variety of reasons he was not a well liked man.He doesn't direct this film with much verve other than a dance sequence.It has two burgeoning film stars in Nova Pilbeam and Michael Wilding.Illness was wanted by Hitchcock for Rebecca but vetoed by Hitchcock.Sliding was of course to become one of the top stars of British cinema by the late forties.Margaret Rutherford Floyd in and out as a gambling eccentric aunt.Sarah Churchill,daughter of Winston really wasn't a particularly talented actress nor did she have the looks to make you forget her lack of ability.Basil Sidney is playing a very much atypical role for him.Normally he played dyed in the wool villains.If it was funny in 1941 it isn't now.