Film You May Have Missed (#13)

And So To Work (1936 (BFI) or 1934 (IMDb))

                                                                Russell Waters as Mr Glenn

This is a lovely little 20 minute ‘short’ set in a London boarding house and tells the story of Mr Glenn’s struggle to get up, get ready and leave for work one winter’s morning. It doesn’t sound like much of a plot but it’s all in the detail. So much of the action would have been familiar and taken for granted by the 1930’s audiences but, seen today, it’s a glimpse into a long-lost world of rusty razor blades, smoke-filled breakfast rooms and pyjama-clad calisthenics.

The bachelor, Mr Glenn, is played by Russell Waters whose career spanned 1934 to 1981 and included appearances in ‘London Belongs to Me’, ‘The Wicker Man’, ‘The Man in the White Suit’ and ‘The Devil Rides Out’.

The writer and director, Richard Massingham, is mainly remembered, by those few that do, for WWII information films such as ‘Coughs and Sneezes (spread diseases)’.

Unfortunately, I can't find this film available either for sale or online currently.