The Lambeth Walk (film)

The Lambeth Walk
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Directed byAlbert de Courville
Written byJohn Paddy Carstairs (screenplay)
Clifford Grey
Robert Edmunds
Based onthe musical by Noel Gay
Douglas Furber
Louis Arthur Rose
Produced byAnthony Havelock-Allan
StarringLupino Lane
Seymour Hicks
Sally Gray
CinematographyFrancis Carver
Edited byLister Laurance
Richard Best
Music byLouis Levy (musical director)
Jack Beaver
Production
company
Distributed byMGM
Release date
  • 3 April 1939 (1939-04-03) (U.K.)
Running time
84 min
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£53,514[1]

The Lambeth Walk is a 1939 British musical comedy film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Lupino Lane, Sally Gray and Seymour Hicks.[2] It was an adaptation of the 1937 musical Me and My Girl, and was released under that title in the U.S. The film takes its British title from the play's best known song, "The Lambeth Walk". The star of the musical, Lupino Lane, reprised his lead role in the film.[3]

Plot

Bill Snibson, a chancer from Lambeth Walk in South London, is informed that he has been discovered to be the long-lost heir to a title and castle which he can claim provided he is able to convince his new relations that he has enough aristocratic bearing. Things soon begin to go awry however, particularly when Sally, Bill's girlfriend from Lambeth, turns up.

Cast

References

  1. ^ Chapman, Llewella. "'The highest salary ever paid to a human being': Creating a Database of Film Costs from the Bank of England". Journal of British cinema and television, 2022-10. Vol. 19, no. 4. Edinburgh University Press. p. 470-494 at 481.
  2. ^ "The Lambeth Walk (1939) | BFI". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 13 January 2009. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
  3. ^ Hal Erickson. "The Lambeth Walk (1940) - Albert de Courville | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related". AllMovie. Retrieved 14 March 2017.


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