I'll Be Your Sweetheart
| I'll Be Your Sweetheart | |
|---|---|
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| Directed by | Val Guest |
| Produced by | Louis Levy |
| Written by |
Val Valentine Val Guest |
| Starring |
Margaret Lockwood Vic Oliver Michael Rennie Peter Graves |
| Music by | Louis Levy |
| Cinematography | Phil Grindrod |
| Edited by | Alfred Roome |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | General Film Distributors |
Release dates | 30 July 1945 |
Running time | 104 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
I'll Be Your Sweetheart is a 1945 British historical musical film directed by Val Guest and starring Margaret Lockwood, Vic Oliver and Michael Rennie. At the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the composers of popular music hall songs fight for a new copyright law that will protect them from having their songs stolen.[1] The film was a commercial success.[2]
Cast
- Margaret Lockwood as Edie Story
- Vic Oliver as Sam Kahn
- Michael Rennie as Bob Fielding
- Peter Graves as Jim Knight
- Moore Marriott as George Le Brunn
- Frederick Burtwell as Pacey
- Garry Marsh as Wallace
- George Merritt as T.P. O'Connor
- Muriel George as Mrs. Le Brunn
- Ella Retford as Dresser
- Joss Ambler as Dugan
- Eliot Makeham as John Friar
- Maudie Edwards as Mrs. Jones
- Jonathan Field as Kelly
- Deryck Guyler as Politician
- Gordon McLeod as Prime Minister
- Arthur Young as Judge
- Dave Crowley as 1st. Henchman
- Alf Goddard as 2nd. Henchman
- Jack Vyvian as 3rd Henchman
Critical reception
In the Radio Times, David Parkinson wrote, "Val Guest directs with brio, but the songs he's saddled with are decidedly second-rate"; [3] while in The Independent, Tom Vallance described the film as an "under-rated musical...a film that combined the pace and vitality of the best Fox musicals with a trenchant look at flourishing music piracy at the turn of the century." [4]
References
- ↑ Murphy p.202
- ↑ Harper p.99
- ↑ David Parkinson. "I'll Be Your Sweetheart". RadioTimes.
- ↑ "Obituary: Peter Graves". The Independent.
Bibliography
- Cook, Pam. Gainsborough Pictures. Cassell, 1997.
- Harper, Sue. Picturing the Past: The Rise and Fall of the British Costume Film. British Film Institute, 1994.
- Murphy, Robert. Realism and Tinsel: Cinema and Society in Britain, 1939-1949. Routledge, 1989.