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The Rotten Borough

1931 , Cambridge (Cambridgeshire)

Cat no. 9512

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Struggling with student life, a young man will go to any lengths to marry his love.

Amateur filmmaker, cinema historian and railway engineer H.A.V. Bulleid mixes slapstick and romance in this portrait of the extra-curricular life of a Cambridge student. When our intrepid undergraduate first arrives in Cambridge, he forgets the name of his college and loses his ticket, leaving him struggling to reach his lodgings. After a dream-filled night spent sleeping on the streets, he arrives at a lodging where everything costs that little bit extra. Rarely in college, he spends his days stealing bicycles and chasing women until he finds one he wishes to marry. With the courtship in full swing, her father says they can only marry if the undergraduate earns £20 in a single day; an ultimatum with inflammatory consequences.

Keywords

University of Cambridge

Intertitles

The Day Before Full Term 6/10/1930

  • Maker : H. A. V. Bulleid

  • Director : H. A. V. Bulleid

  • Script : H. A. V. Bulleid

  • Editor : H. A. V. Bulleid

  • Continuity : H. A. V. Bulleid

  • Camera : H. A. V. Bulleid

  • Stephen Bostock

  • H. Radcliffe

  • G. Westby

  • Buster Keaton

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