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Much Too Shy

  • 1942
  • 1 Std. 32 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
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IHRE BEWERTUNG
Much Too Shy (1942)
Comedy

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuA handyman and amateur artist gets into trouble when nude female bodies are added to the heads he has drawn of prominent ladies, and are sold as soap adverts.A handyman and amateur artist gets into trouble when nude female bodies are added to the heads he has drawn of prominent ladies, and are sold as soap adverts.A handyman and amateur artist gets into trouble when nude female bodies are added to the heads he has drawn of prominent ladies, and are sold as soap adverts.

  • Regie
    • Marcel Varnel
  • Drehbuch
    • Ronald Frankau
    • Walter Greenwood
    • Michael Vaughan
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • George Formby
    • Kathleen Harrison
    • Hilda Bayley
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  • IMDb-BEWERTUNG
    6,2/10
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    • Regie
      • Marcel Varnel
    • Drehbuch
      • Ronald Frankau
      • Walter Greenwood
      • Michael Vaughan
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • George Formby
      • Kathleen Harrison
      • Hilda Bayley
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    • 1Kritische Rezension
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    George Formby
    George Formby
    • George Andy
    Kathleen Harrison
    Kathleen Harrison
    • Amelia Peabody
    Hilda Bayley
    • Lady Driscoll
    Eileen Bennett
    • Jackie Somers
    Joss Ambler
    Joss Ambler
    • Sir George Driscoll
    Jimmy Clitheroe
    • Jimmy
    Frederick Burtwell
    • Mr. Harfield
    Brefni O'Rorke
    Brefni O'Rorke
    • Mr. Somers
    Eric Clavering
    • Robert Latimer
    Gibb McLaughlin
    Gibb McLaughlin
    • Revd. Sheepshanks
    • (as Gibb Mc Laughlin)
    D.J. Williams
    • The Judge
    Peter Gawthorne
    • Plaintiff's Counsel
    Valentine Dyall
    Valentine Dyall
    • Defendant's Councel
    Gus McNaughton
    Gus McNaughton
    • Manager of Commercial Art School
    • (as Gus Mc Naughton)
    Percy Walsh
    Clifford Buckton
    • Armstrong's Colleague
    Noel Dainton
    • Armstrong
    Wally Patch
    • Police Constable
    • Regie
      • Marcel Varnel
    • Drehbuch
      • Ronald Frankau
      • Walter Greenwood
      • Michael Vaughan
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    4malcolmgsw

    Not a patch on his Ealing films

    Formby was one of the top film stars of the thirties.However he made a major mistake when he left Ealing and joined Columbia British. The best of the films he made for Columbia were not as good as the worst of the Ealing films.The production is ramshackle the script poor and the songs were undistinguished. The good cast,Clitheroe excepted who is a real pain,are unable to save it.
    7georgeaberhonddu

    Not side-splittingly funny

    Just watched this film, and at 72 years old it's the first time I have seen this.

    My wife and myself enjoyed trying to name the actors before we saw the cast list, picking out Kathleen Harrison, Jimmy Clitheroe and Valentine Dyall. Must admit to not recognising any other participants. An enjoyable light hearted piece of entertainment.
    4vampire_hounddog

    George's first film for Columbia showed a drop in quality

    George (Formby) is a shy and awkward handyman who lives in a small village and likes the local farm girl (Kathleen Harrison). He lives in a caravan and dreams of becoming an artist. When one of his portraits of some of the locals is turned into a nude piece by students at an art college he finds himself in hot water.

    Not one of Formby's best vehicles and the first for his studio at Columbia. This was an indicator that his new studio had nowhere near the quality of comedy that he had been churning out for Basil Dean and Ealing. It is a little unusual in its mostly rural setting and there is a small part for Charles Hawtrey as one of the art students. He does get to sing a handful of songs, none of which are classics.
    8robert-elliott7

    Later Formby but still achingly funny

    Released on October 12th 1942 this Formby film probably has the best cast line up of any Formby film. George plays a milkman and part time artist who has a problem drawing bodies.On his milk round he is helped by his younger brother played by Jimmy Clitheroe (The Clitheroe Kid). Also in the cast is that ever reliable character actress Kathleen Harrison and Charles Hawtrey. The plot involves George drawing the heads of prominent ladies in his local village, The fun begins when some students led by Hawtrey draw voluptuous bodies on them. It was a rarity even in those days to have two big music hall stars acting in the one film. As usual George gets to sing and play his ukulele to the fallowing songs - Andy the handy man, They all laughed when I started to play,Talking to the moon about you, Delivering the morning milk. A little longer than the usual Formby films but great fun nonetheless.
    4music-room

    The writing is on the wall for Formby fans.

    It doesn't bode too well when the opening scene of Formby's 1942 film involves a set that is so rickety and artificial looking that the slightest breeze will blow it over, and dear Kathleen Harrison (by then fifty years of age, and destined to live to 103)is the closest to a young female lead. Indeed, it is odd to relate that this is the first Formby film not to have a young female co - star to 'mother' the helpless Formby. Perhaps, after having cast a beady eye over the likes of Polly Ward, Phyllis Calvert and Dorothy Hyson, Formby's delectable co - stars in former hit films, George's over protective wife and manager, Beryl, blocked her husband's usual young female interest, supplanting such gorgeous beauties with diminutive, twenty year old Jimmy Clitheroe. Poor Jimmy - he was destined to have a glittering variety career, and a seminal radio series, 'The Clitheroe Kid', which ran for fifteen years, and a successful TV series, 'Just Jimmy', with Molly Sugden; but here, in an early film entry, he struggles in his relationship with George : is he George's son, or brother? Why is he there, living in a run down caravan, and not at school? Or perhaps he's an evacuee with a Lancashire accent.

    Clitheroe's character is not the only weak piece of characterisation: other character actors, normally so reliable, struggle as well. Hilda Bayley, magnificent as Marie Lohr's dotty sister in 'Went the Day Well'?, made in the same year, and a wonderfully acerbic gossip in 'My Brother Jonathan', is almost in a daydream here; Joss Ambler huffs and puffs to no good effect, Gibb LcLaughlin, a far cry from his superb funeral director in Ealing's definitive 'Oliver Twist', is the stereotypical vicar, whose aristocratic family has probably sent the fool of the family into the church, (compare with Christopher Steele's beautifully drawn incumbent in the much better 'Tawny Pipit', two years later) and Peter Gawthorne adds another unsympathetic authority figure to his portfolio. (But with no sign of Will Hay). Frederick Burtwell, as the post master, is as wooden as those curious shutters that are removed from the front of the shop every morning, impervious to the attentions of a besotted Kathleen Harrison, even when the flimsy plot unfolds, in which he has seen a risqué portrait of her, allegedly drawn by George Andy (Formby).

    Formby's successful films and smash hit songs had relied on innuendo, amazingly suggestive for the 1940s, but they were always subtle and funny. Here, the scenario of Formby's character painting semi nude portraits of local women is clumsy, silly and, quite frankly, not very funny. There was another problem - this was Formby's 16th film in eight years, and he had used up all his greatest songs. The result is new material, and I am afraid that 'Andy the handy man', 'Talking to the moon about you' and 'Delivering the morning milk' do not sit well beside the legendary songs of former films, 'Fanlight Fanny', 'My grandad's flannelet shirt' and 'Our sergeant major', to name but three.

    Director Marcel Varnel does his best to raise the level of interest, in a scene where angry locals surround Formby's caravan and push it down a hill.. if only the film had ended there! Instead, it limps on, lamely, as our star gets on with the exciting task of delivering the morning milk. And that's another problem - the lack of action, as dictated by the setting. In former films, action and excitement are an integral part of the film, such as in 'TT Races', 'Spare a Copper', the RAF setting of 'It's in the Air', and the exciting spy at sea setting of 'Let George do it', which had a superb band backing Formby's songs.

    Perhaps the whole conception of 'Much too shy' (what is the significance of the title, anyway?) lies in an escape to the country, far away from the bombs and deprivation of London and the major cities in war time, a theme that is handled expertly in the aforementioned 'Went the Day Well?' (1942) and the underrated 'Tawny Pipit' (1944). However, in 'Much too Shy' the caricatures are simplistic, not helped by an unimaginative and plodding script. Formby soon returned to the 'war' scenario in 'Get Cracking' (1943), but the writing was on the wall, if not on the portraits themselves.. Formby's film career was almost over, after a glittering twelve year period, and he was soon to be overtaken by another great star who would hold our screens for a similar twelve year period - Norman Wisdom (1953 - 65). Unless you are a Formby connoisseur, or you suffer from insomnia, don't bother with this film. After sitting stoically through this offering, I reached for Formby's 'Trouble Brewing' (1939), and my faith was restored. For the first time, George could never say 'turned out nice again' about one of his films.

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    • Wissenswertes
      One of the film posters painted by George is for a fictional movie - "Kansas Laundresses" starring May (sic) West.
    • Patzer
      The painted scenery backgrounds and the rear projection shots are glaringly obvious. This may be due to the limited budgets during wartime.
    • Crazy Credits
      Opening credits prologue: Standstilton Green Where Life Begins at Seven a.m.
    • Verbindungen
      References Sackgasse (1937)
    • Soundtracks
      I'm Delivering The Morning Milk
      Written by George Formby, Fred E. Cliffe and Harry Gifford (uncredited)

      Performed by George Formby

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    • Erscheinungsdatum
      • 12. Oktober 1942 (Vereinigtes Königreich)
    • Herkunftsland
      • Vereinigtes Königreich
    • Sprache
      • Englisch
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    • Drehorte
      • Rock Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England, Vereinigtes Königreich(studio: made & produced at Rock Studios Elstree . . . England)
    • Produktionsfirma
      • Columbia British Productions
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