London folies

Original title: London Town

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An aging music-hall performer returns to London believing he's the star of a new show. When he discovers that he's only slated to be the understudy, his daughter sabotages the revue's star i... Read allAn aging music-hall performer returns to London believing he's the star of a new show. When he discovers that he's only slated to be the understudy, his daughter sabotages the revue's star in order to get him back into the spotlight.An aging music-hall performer returns to London believing he's the star of a new show. When he discovers that he's only slated to be the understudy, his daughter sabotages the revue's star in order to get him back into the spotlight.

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5.7/10

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Trivia
This film was Britain's first major Technicolor musical and also became the most notorious critical and box-office flop of the postwar British cinema and the largest bomb ever for its production company, the famed J. Arthur Rank Organisation.

Quotes
Belgrave: [to Peggy] God help the male population when you grow up!

Crazy credits
Closing credits: The characters depicted in this photoplay are fictional any similarity to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

Alternate versions
UK premiere version (126 mins) UK theatrical release print (95 mins)(shortened, re-edited) US theatrical release print (75 mins)

Connections
Featured in Saturday Live: Pilot (1985)

Soundtracks
You Can't Keep a Good Dreamer Down
(uncredited)
Music by Jimmy Van Heusen
Lyrics by Johnny Burke
Performed by Sid Field

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Featured review

2/10

Woeful

A good musical must have some tuneful melodies,reasonable book and not outsmart its welcome.This film fails on all three counts.Furthermore it has Sid Field in the lead.Now whilst this may be a good thing for music hall historians he simply is not up to the lead role in a film.Furthermore if you don't enjoy the humour of his sketches then you really are stuck.He has a good supporting cast in Claude Hulbert Sonnie Hale and Jerry Desmonde.It is difficult to understand why Rank let Wesley Ruggles direct it,then allow it to be released in a version over two hours long.By 1950 Rank was overdrawn by millions of pounds and brought in John Davis to wield the axe.