Set in Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge football ground and featuring appearances from many real-life players from the day, this is the first film to feature football as its central theme and is recognisably modern and authentic. It deals with the day to day dramas, conflicts and love interests of players and managers in the run-up to the Cup Final.
Watch the official The Great Game 1930 trailer in HD below.
John Batten as Dicky Brown
Renee Clama as Peggy Jackson
Jack Cock as Jim Blake
Randle Ayrton as Henderson
Neil Kenyon as Jackson
Kenneth Kove as Bultitude
A.G. Poulton as Banks
Billy Blyth as Billy
Lew Lake as Tubby
Wally Patch as Joe Miller
Rex Harrison as George
John Lees Writer
Jack Raymond Director
Ralph Gilbert Bettison Writer
William Hunter Writer
W.P. Lipscomb Writer
L'Estrange Fawcett Producer
Geoffrey Boothby Assistant Director
Basil Emmott Director of Photography
Stan Jolly Sound Recordist
Percy Strong Director of Photography
United Kingdom 27 August 1930
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With great pleasure I'd like to show you a taster for The Great Game Expedition film. This short film was put together by Joby Newson my expedition film editor.
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1930:
14 December 1930
A Walter Lantz's Oswald cartoon where he's looking for gold but soon becomes a gag fest with a singing waiter who ends his verses with someone "who cannot leave his mother", a piano player who keeps chugging beer, and Oswald and his peg-leg buddy (probably Peg-Leg Pete who eventually became Mickey's nemesis) saying in unison "Pop Goes the Weasel" with the rabbit getting the better of this buddy after he keeps hitting him.
25 January 1930
The gang is participating in a program sponsored by the Golden Age Dramatic League. They present their own fractured version of Quo Vadis.
21 September 1930
A successful Broadway star ready to retire from her wild career announces her engagement. But her tumultuous past isn't done with her yet.
12 December 1930
Bimbo becomes a long distance accordion champ and comes through with a load of credit.
20 March 1930
Lieut. Robert Banks, an American aviator on leave in Paris, meets Mary Gordon, a young American who lives abroad, but their romance is cut short by his return to the front.
15 October 1930
Returning from the war, Buck finds his younger brother in trouble.
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'Natural' Davis (William Powell) is a respected gambler who follows a ruthless code of honor with those who cheat against him.
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Peter has to be married by midnight or else his inheritance goes to his uncle... Who happens to live in a "haunted house".
30 January 1930
Jack and Jerry are doing okay between profession baseball and Vaudeville. That is, until love and gold-diggers get in the way.
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Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1930 Gaumont-British Picture Corporation.