Something Always Happens

1934
TV-G
1 h 9 min

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Ian Hunter and John Singer in Something Always Happens (1934)

On this IMDbrief we trace the origin of the B-Movie, how it evolved, and what it takes to earn the B-Movie badge of honor.

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Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaWhile trying to impress a woman, a man stumbles upon an idea that would double the profits of gas stations. Being rebuffed by the woman's father, he takes his idea to a rival company, who hi... Ler tudoWhile trying to impress a woman, a man stumbles upon an idea that would double the profits of gas stations. Being rebuffed by the woman's father, he takes his idea to a rival company, who hires him and runs his competition out of business.While trying to impress a woman, a man stumbles upon an idea that would double the profits of gas stations. Being rebuffed by the woman's father, he takes his idea to a rival company, who hires him and runs his competition out of business.

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Ian Hunter

Peter Middleton

Nancy O'Neil

Cynthia Hatch

Peter Gawthorne

Mr. Hatch

John Singer

Billy

Muriel George

Mrs. Badger

Barry Livesey

George Hamlin
(as Barrie Livesey)

Louie Emery

Mrs.Tremlett
(não creditado)

Alec Finter

Man Refusing to Employ Peter
(não creditado)

Janet Fitzpatrick

Girl
(não creditado)

Arthur Hambling

First Duped Waiter
(não creditado)

Anthony Holles

Tony
(não creditado)

Jack Lambert

Card Player
(não creditado)

Maire O'Neill

Tenement Mother
(não creditado)

Percy Walsh

Brent - Hatch's Colleague
(não creditado)

Naunton Wayne

Man Refusing to Help Peter
(não creditado)

Townsend Whitling

Blue Point Executive
(não creditado)

Millicent Wolf

Glenda
(não creditado)

George Zucco

Proprietor of the Maison de Paris
(não creditado)

Direção
- Michael Powell
Roteirista
- Brock Williams
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Directed by Michael Powell, Something Always Happens (1934) is one of 23 "quota quickies" he was hired to helm for Teddington Studios, all of which were typically one-hour features needed to satisfy a legal requirement that cinemas in England exhibit a certain quota of British movies.

The film's producer Irving Asher was an American who oversaw film production at Warner Brothers' British Studios. According to Powell in his autobiography, "A Life in Movies," Irving "had to make about 20 films a year to fulfill his British quota ... He went back to California each year with the head of his scenario department, raided the story department at Burbank and came back to Teddington with perhaps 50 scripts that had already been turned into films by those satanic mills and were already playing at Palaces and flea-pits all around the world, many of them with big stars like Bette Davis, Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney. Everything was run like a machine at Burbank and the average length of a script was 80 pages ... All that Irving had to do was hand the script to his story department, who cut it down to 50 pages and handed it over to a director like me. This was how tight little dramas like my Crown v. Stevens (1936), or comedies like "Something Always Happens"... arrived on the British screen. I made six or seven of these for Irving, slotting them in between other assignments. Jerry [Jackson] and he, both young Americans both in the quota-quickie business, were good friends. They carved me up between them, dovetailing their schedules so that I could work for both of them."

Erros de gravação
When Peter pushes over the fruit cart vendor and goes to duck through a doorway, a clear moving shadow of the boom microphone is visible to the left of the doorway.

Citações
Mrs. Badger: You'll get no food in this house until the rent's paid!

Trilhas sonoras
Spin a Little Web of Dreams
(uncredited)
Music by Sammy Fain
Played at the restaurant when Peter pours champagne for Cynthia and himself

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9/10

Delightful early Michael Powell film

This is a truly delightful early Michael Powell film, crisply directed and edited, with excellent cinematography, and it is extraordinary that an early British film of such quality is so little known. There is a striking performance by child actor John Singer, aged 11, as a runaway orphan who is taken up by Ian Hunter, a gent down on his luck and penniless because of his compulsive gambling. The two move in together (no, paedophilia did not yet exist!) and together charm and wheedle their way to a landlady's heart (played with alternate fierceness and charm by Muriel George), so that they get the room for free until their ship comes in, plus huge breakfasts because she loves children. Ian Hunter is excellent as the lead, and one forgives him instantly for his foibles because he is no nice. Meanwhile he meets Nancy O'Neill, who is excellent with her tongue-in-cheek masquerade as a poor girl, whereas she is really the daughter of a business magnate. She urges Hunter to apply to her father for a job, not revealing who she is, but Hunter ends up becoming the competition. If only business success were that easy! But oh well, this is the movies. Peter Gawthorne is amusing as the intimidating papa, exasperated one moment and melting the next. Needless to say, this is one of those films where everything goes well and hardships are overcome, though there is a bizarre shift in plot emphasis from the boy to the girl, and it does seem as if two stories were stuck together rather unconvincingly. But never mind, it is all a delight and so well done that we just enjoy every minute of it.