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Star Movie: Charles Laughton in The Tuttles of Tahiti

BBC One
on BBC One London

also starring Jon Hall Florence Bates Peggy Drake
Laughton gives a characteristically bravura performance as Jonas Tuttle , patriarch of a large, improvident family whose philosophy is to eat, drink and make merry today, for tomorow they can always borrow from a friend. The Tuttles' easy-going lifestyle is jeopardised by the impractical Jonas when he mortgages the family home and land and stakes the entire fortune on a prize game-cock....
Screenplay by s. LEWIS MELTZER. ROBERT CARSON from the novel
No More Gas by CHARLES NORDHOFF and JAMES NORMAN HALL Produced by SOL LESSER
Directed by CHARLES VIDOR
● FILMS: page 31

Contributors

Unknown:
Jon Hall
Unknown:
Florence Bates
Unknown:
Peggy Drake
Unknown:
Jonas Tuttle
Unknown:
Lewis Meltzer.
Unknown:
Charles Nordhoff
Unknown:
James Norman
Produced By:
Sol Lesser
Directed By:
Charles Vidor
Jonas:
Charles Laughton
Chester:
Jon Hall
Tamara:
Peggy Drake
Dr Blondin:
Victor Francen
Emily:
Florence Bates
Ru:
Gene Reynolds
Jensen:
Curt Bois
Mama Ruau:
Adeline de Walt Reynolds
Nat:
Mala
Source: Radio Times

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