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Time Flies (1944 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Time Flies' is a 1944 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Tommy Handley, Evelyn Dall, Felix Aylmer and Moore Marriott. The screenplay concerns two music hall performers, an inventor and a con-man who travel back to Elizabethan times using a time machine.
Plot
A professor invents a time sphere which takes a group of 1940s entertainers to Elizabethan London, where they encounter Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh and introduce them to jazz culture.
They also meet Captain John Smith and a very heavy-drinking Pocahontas. The main female character meets William Shakespeare and feeds him some of his own lines, which he eagerly writes down.
A costume-production, (many of which are immaculate), which makes extensive use of the Gainsborough wardrobe.
Cast
* Tommy Handley – Tommy
* Evelyn Dall – Susie Barton
* George Moon – Bill Barton
* Felix Aylmer – The Professor
* Moore Marriott – A Soothsayer
* Graham Moffatt – His Nephew
* John Salew – William Shakespeare
* Leslie Bradley – Captain Walter Raleigh
* Olga Lindo – Queen Elizabeth
* Roy Emerton – Captain John Smith
* Iris Lang – Princess Pocahontas
* Stphane Grappelli – A Troubadour
Critical reception
'Sky Cinema' gave the film two out of five stars, its review stating: "Despite the subject and the cast, the treatment lacks vivacity". 'TV Guide' rated it similarly: "A well-tuned script takes full advantages of the possibilities for comedy, but radio star Handley is a bit of a disappointment, looking sourly out of place on the screen"; The 'Radio Times' rated it three out of five stars, concluding: "Some of the jokes have travelled less well and it falls flat in places, but it's a thoroughly entertaining romp".
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