Thank You, Jeeves!
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Cast & Crew
Arthur Greville Collins
Arthur Treacher
Virginia Field
David Niven
Lester Matthews
Colin Tapley
Film Details
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Synopsis
When Bertie Wooster expresses the desire to go to Deauville in search of adventure and romance, his "gentleman's gentleman" Jeeves gives notice that he will leave the next morning because Bertie's earlier exploits endangered the placid Jeeves. That night, a mysterious woman followed by two men takes refuge in the Wooster home in London to Bertie's delight. The next day, annoyed that Jeeves let the woman leave during the night, Bertie, having learned from a telegram that she was expected at Mooring Manor Hotel, convinces Jeeves that they should go there. On the road, Jeeves and Bertie pick up Drowsy, a stranded black American saxophonist. After a furious chase, Tom Brock and Jack Stone, the men who followed the woman, identify themselves to Jeeves and Bertie as Scotland Yard agents and say that the woman stole important papers. At the hotel, which was once the manor of a viscount, the woman, Marjorie Lowman, is surprised when the clerk relates that Edward McDermott, whom she telephoned there the previous evening, has never been there. Elliott Manville, who attacked McDermott and took his half of a blueprint, tells her that he will help. Bertie tries to convince Marjorie to give up to the police and to marry him, while Jeeves teaches Drowsy to play "The March of the Hussars." Carried away by the finale, the two crash through a trap door into the cellar. Marjorie follows Brock and Stone through a secret compartment leading to the cellar, where she pulls a gun on them and Manville. Bertie, who has followed her, takes her gun and gives it to Manville before he realizes that they are not policemen. After they get Marjorie's half of the blueprint, Bertie switches out the lights, grabs the plans and rushes out with Marjorie. Jeeves, formerly an amateur fighter, knocks out their pursuers and fights the hotel staff with medieval weapons which he finds lodged in the cellar. After McDermott, who is Marjorie's cousin, arrives with the police, Marjorie explains that Manville wanted to sell the plans for McDermott's invention to a foreign government. Bertie, who had been chained to the wall along with the crooks by Drowsy after Jeeves mistakenly clunked his helmeted head, proposes to Marjorie, who accepts. Jeeves gives notice again and begins to file off the chains.
Director
Arthur Greville Collins
Cast
Arthur Treacher
Virginia Field
David Niven
Lester Matthews
Colin Tapley
John Graham Spacey
Ernie Stanton
Gene Reynolds
Douglas Walton
Willie Best
Paul Mcvey
Colin Kenny
Jimmie Aubrey
Joe North
Dorothy Phillips
Ed Dearing
Crew
Joseph Aiken
Lou Breslow
Duncan Cramer
Nick De Maggio
Stephen Gross
Herschel
Joseph Hoffman
Samuel Kaylin
Harry M. Leonard
Edward T. Lowe
Barney Mcgill
Allen Rivkin
Aaron Rosenberg
Harry Sauber
Sol M. Wurtzel
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The title card in the opening credits reads: "P. G. Wodehouse's Thank You, Jeeves!" This was the first of a planned series of several films built around the P. G. Wodehouse character "Jeeves". According to a Hollywood Reporter news item in October 1935, as a publicity stunt, the public would be asked to name the actor it considers best to portray "Jeeves". It is not known if Arthur Treacher was selected by the public. Twentieth Century-Fox only produced one other film in the series, the 1937 Step Lively, Jeeves!, which also starred Treacher as "Jeeves" and which was directed by Eugene Forde. David Niven did not appear in the latter film, and New York Times commented that the studio made a mistake in starting the series with only Treacher signed to a contract. New York Times noted that when studio heads Darryl Zanuck and Joseph Schenck, who "left Goldwyn amid heated words" when they resigned from United Artists to merge their company, Twentieth Century, with Fox, tried to buy Niven's contract from Goldwyn, they received an emphatic refusal. Arthur Greville Collins earlier had been a London stage director. According to Motion Picture Herald, all of the cast members were British except Willie Best. According to modern sources, the film was retitled Thank You, Mr. Jeeves. In 1965, BBC-1 broadcasted a television series using the Wodehouse characters, which was first entitled The World of Wooster, and later, P. G. Wodehouse's The World of Wooster and The World of Wodehouse. The series was produced by Michael Mills and starred Ian Carmichael and Dennis Price.
