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Love on Wheels
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Wikipedia article
'Love on Wheels' is a 1932 British musical comedy film directed by Victor Saville and starring Jack Hulbert, Gordon Harker, Edmund Gwenn and Leonora Corbett.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090113210723/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/40902 BFI.org]
Plot
A daily commuter on a Green Line bus from the suburbs to Central London Fred Hopkins romantically pursues a fellow passenger Jane with the help of Briggs the bus conductor. His hopes are thwarted when he is fired from his job at a major department store. However he is eventually able to return, securing both his dream job as advertising manager in charge of window dressing and the girl he loves.
Cast
* Jack Hulbert - Fred Hopkins
* Leonora Corbett - Jane Russell
* Gordon Harker - Briggs
* Edmund Gwenn - Philpotts
* Tony De Lungo - Bronelli
* Percy Parsons - American Crook
* Roland Culver - Salesman
* Miles Malleson - Academy of Music Porter
* Martita Hunt - Piano Demonstrator
* Maria Milza - Mrs Bronelli
Production
The film was made at the Islington Studios of Gainsborough Pictures. Gainsborough was part of the larger Gaumont British empire, and specialised in making comedies during the 1930s. Hulbert became one of the studio's top stars during the early 1930s, often appearing with his wife Cicely Courtneidge.
Critical reception
BFI Screenonline called the film a "sublime musical comedy." and 'British Pictures' called it "one of those charmingly amateurish British musicals the 30s produced so well. It proclaims: we may not have dancers like Fred and Ginger, or songwriters like Gershwin or Berlin, or directors like Busby Berkeley, but when it comes to endearing silliness we're world class...Love on Wheels is never going to make the critics Top 100 list, it certainly leaves a smile on your face."
References
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