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Front Line Kids
Front Line Kids
	Belgian theatrical release poster
Directed by	Maclean Rogers
Written by	Jack Byrd; H. F. Maltby; Kathleen Butler;
Produced by	Hugh Perceval
Starring	Leslie Fuller
Cinematography	Stephen Dade
Edited by	A. Charles Knott
Music by	Percival Mackey
Production; company	Butcher's Film Service
Distributed by	Butcher's Film Service
Release date	29 June 1942;
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Front Line Kids is a 1942 British second feature ('B')^[1] comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Leslie Fuller.^[2] It was written by Jack Byrd, H. F. Maltby and Kathleen Butler.

Plot

In wartime London an unruly group of boys assist an incompetent hotel porter to thwart a gang of criminals operating out of the building.

Cast

Gerald Rex as Bert Wragg
Leslie Fuller as Nobby Clarkson
John Singer as Ginger Smith
John Tacchi as Front Line Gang member
Marion Gerth as Elsa la Rue
David Keir as The Parson
George Pughe as Pinski
Anthony Holles as hotelier
Ralph Michael as Paul
Ben Williams as porter
Norman Pierce as P.C. Rozzer
Eric Clavering as Carl
Vi Kaley as Mrs. Lowther
Nora Gordon as evacuee organiser
Brian Fitzpatrick as Front Line Gang member
Derek Prendergast as Front Line Gang member
Gerald Moore as Front Line Gang member
Michael John as Front Line Gang member
David Anthony as Front Line Gang member
Norah Black
O. B. Clarence as 'real' clergyman
Vincent Holman as Police Sergeant
Kay Lewis as receptionist
Douglas Stewart as hotel guest

Production

It was made at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith. The film's sets were designed by the art director Andrew Mazzei.

Reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Maclean Rogers has made a good job of the direction of this farcical film, and it runs smoothly and quickly to its inevitable conclusion with plenty of laughs from the dialogue and the situations. "The Gang", a collection of juvenile actors, stand out for their natural performances which are sometimes in contrast with those of their elders. Anthony Holles gives an amusing character study of an excitable foreign hotel manager. Leslie Fuller is his usual self as Nobby Clarkson. Gerald Rex and John Singer are the page boys and make as miich of their parts as possible, even if the latter occasionally is inclined to forget he is a full-blooded Cockney."^[3]

References

^ Chibnall, Steve; McFarlane, Brian (2009). The British 'B' Film. London: BFI/Bloomsbury. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-8445-7319-6.
^ "Front Line Kids". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 28 November 2024.
^ "Front Line Kids". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 9 (97): 41. 1 January 1942 – via ProQuest.