You Made Me Love You (1933)

You Made Me Love You: Directed by Monty Banks. With Stanley Lupino, Thelma Todd, John Loder, Gerald Rawlinson. A rich American businessman in London makes believe he’s lost all his money so that his daughter will marry a composer.

“Stanley Lupino, the father of Ida Lupino, had been a big West End star for fifteen years when he made this starring vehicle with Thelma Todd, looking as good as she ever did and falling right in with the comedy of the situation. Lupino, like his cousin Lupino Lane, was a high-energy performer and they not only looked alike, they moved alike, Although Stanley does not run around on the ceilings or make inanimate objects come alive, this movie starts and never stops. Neither are the songs really top-notch, but they are presented very engagingly.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhat makes this movie a real find is that Alfred Hitchcock and his writers seem to have cribbed extensively from it for THE 39 STEPS, particularly in the Public House scenes. I wonder where co-writer Launder, who later co-wrote Hitchcocku0026#39;s THE LADY VANISHES — pay-off? — lifted it from.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eDirector Monty Banks, himself a star of American comedy in the 1920s, can be spotted as the driver of the worldu0026#39;s worst taxi. Keep an eye out for this one — the Library of Congress has just made a new print.”