The School for Scandal is a 1930 British historical comedy film directed by Thorold Dickinson and Maurice Elvey and starring Basil Gill, Madeleine Carroll and Ian Fleming. It is the first sound film adaptation of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's play The School for Scandal. It is also the only feature-length film shot using the unsuccessful Raycol colour process, and marked the screen debut of Sally Gray.
The film was shot at the Elstree Studios of British International Pictures with sets designed by the art director Lawrence P. Williams. It ended up being released as a second feature and is classified as a quota quickie.
The British Film Institute has placed it on the BFI 75 Most Wanted list of lost films.
Cast
Basil Gill as Sir Peter Teazle
Madeleine Carroll as Lady Teazle
Ian Fleming as Joseph Surface
Henry Charles Hewitt as Charles Surface
Edgar K. Bruce as Sir Oliver Surface
Hayden Coffin as Sir Harry Bumper
Hector Abbas as Moses
Dodo Watts as Maria
Anne Grey as Lady Sneerwell
John Charlton as Benjamin Backbite
Stanley Lathbury as Crabtree
Henry Vibart as Squire Hunter
May Agate as Mrs. Candour
Maurice Braddell as Careless
Gibb McLaughlin as William
Wallace Bosco as Rawley
Sally Gray in a bit part
Rex Harrison in a bit part
Anna Neagle in a bit part