Return to Yesterday
1940 British film by Robert Stevenson
- Margaret Kennedy
- Angus MacPhail
- Roland Pertwee
- Robert Stevenson
by Robert Morley
- Clive Brook
- Anna Lee
- Dame May Whitty
Production
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Ealing Studios
Release date
- 9 March 1940 (1940-03-09) (UK)
Running time
Return to Yesterday is a 1940 British comedy-drama film directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Clive Brook and Anna Lee.[1] It was based on Robert Morley's play Goodness, How Sad.[2] The film was made at Ealing Studios.[1]
Synopsis
A British Hollywood star goes AWOL on his way back to Hollywood after a visit in London. The reason is an impromptu decision to leave the train on his way to the ocean liner in Southampton when it passes the seaside resort where he once worked as a struggling actor at a local theatre. Without anyone but his old landlady realising who he is, he then agrees to appear in latest production of a travelling repertory theatre company when it loses its leading man a few days before the premiere, and falls in love with the leading lady.
Cast
- Clive Brook as Robert Maine
- Anna Lee as Carol Sands
- Dame May Whitty as Mrs. Emily Truscott
- Hartley Power as Regan
- Milton Rosmer as Fred Sambourne
- David Tree as Peter Thropp
- Olga Lindo as Grace Sambourne
- Garry Marsh as Charlie Miller
- Arthur Margetson as Osbert
- Elliott Mason as Mrs Priskin
- O. B. Clarence as Truscott
- David Horne as Morrison
- Frank Pettingell as Prendergast
- Ludwig Stössel as Captain Angst
- Wally Patch as Night Watchman
- H. F. Maltby as Inspector
- Mary Jerrold as Old lady at station
- Alf Goddard as Attendant
- John Turnbull as Stationmaster
- Patric Curwen as Jim, the Guard
- Eliot Makeham as Fred Grover
- Mollie Rankin as Christine Lawford
- Bruce Seton as Journalist
Critical reception
Allmovie called it "A delightful film that begs to be rediscovered."[2]
References
- ^ a b "Return to Yesterday (1940)". Archived from the original on 10 March 2017.
- ^ a b "Return to Yesterday (1940) - Robert Stevenson - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie.
External links
- Return to Yesterday at IMDb
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Films directed by Robert Stevenson
- Happy Ever After (1932)
- Falling for You (1933)
- Tudor Rose (1936)
- The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936)
- Jack of All Trades (1936)
- King Solomon's Mines (1937)
- Non-Stop New York (1937)
- Owd Bob (1938)
- The Ware Case (1938)
- Young Man's Fancy (1939)
- Return to Yesterday (1940)
- Tom Brown's School Days (1940)
- Back Street (1941)
- Joan of Paris (1942)
- Forever and a Day (1943)
- Jane Eyre (1943)
- Dishonored Lady (1947)
- To the Ends of the Earth (1948)
- The Woman on Pier 13 (1949)
- Walk Softly, Stranger (1950)
- My Forbidden Past (1951)
- The Las Vegas Story (1952)
- Johnny Tremain (1957)
- Old Yeller (1957)
- Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)
- Kidnapped (1960)
- The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)
- In Search of the Castaways (1962)
- Son of Flubber (1963)
- The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964)
- Mary Poppins (1964)
- The Monkey's Uncle (1965)
- That Darn Cat! (1965)
- The Gnome-Mobile (1967)
- Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)
- The Love Bug (1968)
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
- Herbie Rides Again (1974)
- The Island at the Top of the World (1974)
- One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975)
- The Shaggy D.A. (1976)
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