The Night Porter is a 1930 British comedy film directed by Sewell Collins and starring Donald Calthrop, Trilby Clark and Gerald Rawlinson. It was produced as a quota quickie for release as a second feature. It was based on a popular music hall sketch by Fred Rome and Harry Wall depicting a honeymooning couple and the hotel night porter they encounter.
Plot summary George, the inebriate night porter at the Hotel Splendide, develops a series of increasingly outlandish suspicions about Billy and Percy, two guests who have arrived separately yet claim to be a married couple and demand to share a room together, and he believes they are jewel thieves. Cast Donald Calthrop as George, the night porter Trilby Clark as Billy Bardolph, the wife Gerald Rawlinson as Percy Pink, the husband Barbara Gott as Mrs Ramsbotham Tom Shale as Jim, the day porter Anna Ludmilla
Production The film was made by Gaumont British Picture Corporation, an affiliate of Gainsborough Pictures, at the Lime Grove Studios with sets designed by Andrew Mazzei.
Reception Kine Weekly wrote: "The music-hall sketch has been slightly embellished in order to make this into a feature, and this results in it becoming a little tedious at times. It must be said, however, that in the circumstances Donald Calthrop does extraordinarily well and is sufficiently good to make the picture a safe comedy booking."
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