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Let the People Sing (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Let the People Sing' is a 1942 British comedy film directed by John Baxter, and starring Alastair Sim, Fred Emney and Edward Rigby. The film's sets were designed by R. Holmes Paul. It was made at Elstree Studios.
The screenplay concerns a small town that bands together to try to save their music hall from closure. It was based on the 1939 novel 'Let the People Sing' by J. B. Priestley.
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Critical reception
'Time Out' wrote "John Baxter was the British director probably least patronising and most sympathetic to the working classes and their culture during the '30s and '40s, and even if his films now often seem nave and simplistic, it's good at least to see an honest and humorous attempt to deal with life outside Mayfair. Less scathing than 'Love on the Dole' (his best known film), this adaptation of a JB Priestley novel is a spritely, vaguely Capra-esque comedy...Fred Emney steals the show as a government arbitrator susceptible to the charms of alcohol."
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Bibliography
* Murphy, Robert. 'Realism and Tinsel: Cinema and Society in Britain 1939-48'. Routledge, 1992.
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