A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
Storm in a Teacup 1937 HD | UK romance, comedy film directed by Victor Saville | Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison
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Storm in a Teacup is a 1937 Cinema of the United Kingdom romantic comedy film starring Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison in his first starring role, Cecil Parker and Sara Allgood. It is based on the German play Sturm im Wasserglas by Bruno Frank, as well as the English-language adaptations: London’s Storm in a Teacup and Broadway’s Storm Over Patsy, both written by James Bridie. A reporter writes an article that embarrasses a politician. Meanwhile, the newspaperman is also attracted to his target’s daughter.
Plot
A Scottish town’s powerful provost (mayor) struts and brags about his city “improvements” while the cowed villagers are sullenly forced to put up with him. A free-spirited English reporter is brought from London to work for the local newspaper and soon clashes with the autocrat—while falling in love with his daughter. He strikes out against the provost by taking up the cause of a poor woman who sells ice cream from a pushcart, and has dared to protest against the provost’s new “dog tax”. The local police are about to put her sheepdog Patsy to death because she cannot pay the back taxes and subsequent fine incurred by her ownership of the dog.
The idealistic young reporter exposes the injustice in the local newspaper before the editors have a chance to suppress the article, and it sparks an indignant protest campaign all over England and Scotland. The furious provost rashly sues the “cheeky little rotter from London” for libel. A courtroom scene ensues which strongly resembles a “kangaroo trial” until, in view of local support for the defendant (with the villagers humorously barking like dogs) and the budding love affair between the reporter and the provost daughter, the provost gives up, and all is happily resolved.
Cast
- Vivien Leigh as Victoria Gow
- Rex Harrison as Frank Burdon
- Cecil Parker as Provost (civil) William Gow
- Sara Allgood as Honoria Hegarty
- Ursula Jeans as Lisbet Skirving
- Gus McNaughton as Horace Skirving
- Edgar K. Bruce as McKellar (as Edgar Bruce)
- Robert Hale as Lord Skerryvore
- Quentin McPhearson as Baillie Callender (as Quinton Macpherson)
- Arthur Wontner as Procurator Fiscal
- Eliot Makeham as Sheriff
- George Pughe as Menzies
- Arthur Seaton as Police Sergeant
- Cecil Mannering as Police Constable
- Ivor Barnard as Watkins
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