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Car of Dreams is a 1935 British romantic comedy film directed by Graham Cutts and Austin Melford and starring Grete Mosheim, John Mills, Norah Howard and Robertson Hare. A tycoon's son falls in love with a woman who works at his father's factory. It was based on the 1934 Hungarian film Meseautó.
Vera Hart lives with her parents. Her father is an antiques salesman who loves his stock too much to sell it and there doesn't make any money. Through her friend Molly, Vera applies manages to get a job at Miller's music instrument factory in a menial job.
Vera has a habit of going into shops and trying on expensive clothes and jewellery which she could never hope to pay for. On her way home from work she stops in a car dealers and sits in a new luxury car. Robert Miller, the young son of the owner of Miller's factory, sees Vera and falls instantly in love with her. He pretends to be an employee at the car showroom and they bond together. On a whim, he decides to buy Vera the car and pretend she has won it as the 10,000th customer to visit the shop. Vera's father is delighted by the new car, but her mother is more suspicious.
Miller wants to spend more time with Vera, but he is uncertain about telling her his true identity in part because he is constantly harassed by woman who are interested in his inheritance. He approaches the Hart family and offers to chauffeur the car for them, doing jobs such as weddings to pay for it. As none of them can drive, they accept his offer. Miller gets into the habit of driving Vera to work at the factory, still not revealing the truth that his family owns the business.
When he discovers how little she is paid he has her salary raised to five pounds a week. Unfortunately this leads to bad feeling amongst Vera's colleagues, in particular her superior Henry Butterworth and Anne Fisher who has a crush on Miller, who suspect that Vera is the fancy woman of Miller. Vera is bemused by her pay rise because she is under the impression that she has never met Miller.
When Vera comes to his office to confront Miller about her increased salary, he hides and gets his friend Peters to pretend to be him. Peters takes a shine to Vera, and tries to persuade her to go out on a date with him. Once she has gone, Miller and Peters get into an argument over whether each of them have a shot with her and wether she is more interested in love or money. The debate is put to the test when Vera, Miller and Peters all head down to a country hotel for an ice-skating carnival. A concerned Mr Butterworth and Miss Fisher also head down to the hotel to keep an eye on Vera, and are shocked when they see her separately with both Peters and Miller, believing that she is two timing them.
Still without revealing his true identity, Miller asks Vera to live with him for ever in a couple of rooms over a garage. She joyfully accepts, but when Butterworth tells her who Miller really is she is hurt - thinking that his offer was not one of marriage but one of a kept woman. She then pretends to be uninterested in Miller and instead focuses her attention on Peters. Eventually however the confusion is resolved and Miller and Vera drive off together in their "car of dreams".
Cast * Grete Mosheim as Vera Hart * John Mills as Robert Miller * Norah Howard as Anne Fisher * Robertson Hare as Henry Butterworth * Mark Lester as Miller Senr. * Margaret Withers as Mrs. Hart * Paul Graetz as Mr. Hart * Glennis Lorimer as Molly * Jack Hobbs as Peters * Hay Plumb as Chauffeur
Soundtrack * "Car of Dreams" (Written by Maurice Sigler, Al Goodhart and Al Hoffman)
Directed by Graham Cutts
Austin Melford
Produced by Michael Balcon (producer)
Written by Richard Benson (adaptation)
Stafford Dickens (adaptation)
Austin Melford (writer)
László Vadnay (play)
Miklós Vitéz (play)
Starring See below
Music by Mischa Spoliansky
Bretton Byrd
Cinematography Mutz Greenbaum
Editing by Charles Frend
Release date(s) 1935
Running time 72 minutes
Country UK
Language English
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FLATRON777ful 2 days ago
This is one nice movie, particularly fine performances from a very young Sir John Mills anf Grethe Mosheim. Lucky she escaped from the hands of the Nazi criminals and made Great Britain her home. Wonder what became of her???
rusim41 1 week ago
los subtitulos: escritos por un poeta indio. incomplensibles pero cargados de belleza
oedipuschmoedipus 2 weeks ago
Interesting film musical comedy with John Mills, well filmed, and a bit more than 10/6d spent on it! GB could make decent films when they tried harder than quota quickies. Perhaps a bit miss cast, Grethe Mosheim turns in a good performance in what was an adaptation of a Hungarian original story. Lots of Hungarians worked in the UK film industry, indeed Denham was run by Korda. Perhaps it should have been made there!
swallin19 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
The great Grethe Mosheim, leaving one of the many unique artist was ordered to Germany after the Nazi criminals came to power. Many other artists have not escaped the Nazis, unfortunately, and were murdered in Auschwitz
bobinobaker 5 months ago
Not too bad a film considering the entire budget was 10/6d
Avillageidiot59 8 months ago