Front Line Kids
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. PlotIn wartime London an unruly group of boys assist an incompetent hotel porter to thwart a gang of criminals operating out of the building. Cast
ProductionIt was made at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith. The film's sets were designed by the art director Andrew Mazzei. ReceptionAccording to Kinematograph Weekly the film was "a turn up" at the British box office in June 1942.[3] 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."[4] References
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