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The Lady Is Willing is a 1934 British comedy film directed by Gilbert Miller and starring Leslie Howard (as Mr. Leslie Howard).

The Lady Is Willing
Directed by	Gilbert Miller
Screenplay by	Guy Bolton
Story by	Louis Verneuil
Produced by	Joseph Friedman
Starring	Leslie Howard (as Mr. Leslie Howard)
Cinematography	Joseph Walker
Edited by	Otto Ludwig
Production company	Columbia British Productions
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release dates	January 1934 (1934-01) (United Kingdom) 11 August 1934 (1934-08-11) (United States)
Running time	68 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The film was unsuccessful, though it received some positive feedbacks; Mordaunt Hall wrote for The New York Times:

it is a farce of the Parisian variety which possesses something of the effervescent quality René Clair gives to his pictures. Although the action is stilted here and there, obviously occasionally because of censorial deletions, the film has the compensating virtues of excellent acting, scintillating lines and original, but decidedly mad, escapades.[1]

Plot

Set in France, private detective Albert Latour is employed by three men who aim to take revenge on the man responsible for a failed investment. Realising that the man's wife is wealthy, Latour kidnaps her in order to hold a ransom. The matter gets complicated when he finds himself falling in love with her.[2]

Cast

• Leslie Howard as Albert Latour (as Mr. Leslie Howard)
• Cedric Hardwicke as Gustav Dupont
• Binnie Barnes as Helene Dupont
• Nigel Playfair as Professor Menard (as Sir Nigel Playfair)
• Nigel Bruce as Welton
• W. Graham Brown as Monsieur Pignolet (as Graham Browne)
• Kendall Lee as Valerie
• Claud Allister as Brevin
• Arthur Howard as Dr. Germont

See also

• List of British films of 1934

References

External links

• The Lady Is Willing at IMDb
• The Lady Is Willing at the TCM Movie Database
• The Lady Is Willing at the British Film Institute

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