Almost a Honeymoon (1938 film)

Almost a Honeymoon is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Norman Lee and starring Tommy Trinder, Linden Travers and Edmund Breon. It was based on the 1930 play Almost a Honeymoon by Walter Ellis, previously filmed in 1930. Its plot is about a young man who urgently needs to find a wife so that he can get a lucrative job in the colonial service, and sets out to persuade a woman to marry him.

It was shot at the Welwyn Studios of Associated British outside London. The film's sets were designed by the art director Duncan Sutherland.

Cast

 * Tommy Trinder as Peter Dibley
 * Linden Travers as Patricia Quilter
 * Edmund Breon as Aubrey Lovitt
 * Frederick Burtwell as Charles
 * Vivienne Bennett as Rita Brent
 * Arthur Hambling as Adolphus
 * Aubrey Mallalieu as Clutterbuck
 * Ian Fleming as Sir James Hooper
 * Betty Jardine as Lavinia Pepper
 * Wally Patch as Bailiff

Critical reception
Allmovie wrote, "nothing really happens (this is a 1938 film), but you can't censor the gleam in the supporting characters' eyes."