Miss London Ltd. (1943)
1943 · Feature film · 95 min · dir. Val Guest
- War
- musical film
- propaganda film
Synopsis
Askey stars as a man trying to save his flagging escort agency. A new partner suggests getting some new girls in, just in time for the soldiers' leave. The film also features the English singing favourite of the forties, Anne Shelton.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Val Guest
- Writer
- Marriott Edgar
- Cinematography
- Basil Emmott
- Studio
- Gainsborough Pictures
- Released
- 1943-06-14
- Running time
- 95 minutes
Cast & crew
Val Guest Director
Peter Graves
Evelyn Dall
Arthur Askey
Marianne Stone
Patricia Owens
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Charming, Campy British WWII Musical · glofau · 2012-04-07
I adore this movie, a feather-light confection of sentimental WWII stupidity which I find to be a delectable mix of lighthearted fun and amusingly camp badness. The songs are tuneful and engaging (if mindless), sung with verve and panache by a talented cast. Anne Shelton is particularly winning, Evelyn Dall is delightfully perky, Arthur Askey is his usual amusing self, and the entire movie bubbles along in a very entertaining fashion. Granted, the plot (about a financially troubled Escort (?!?!) service for military officers, of all things) is moronic and utterly disintegrates at the climax…
★★★★ · Surprisingly good and worth watching · kareneliot · 2010-07-11
My review will seem like I didn't like this film very much, but I really did like it quite a lot. I just don't like Aurthur Askey or musicals. If it weren't for that personal preference I'd have given it 5 stars. I had to take off one star for Aurthur Askey being in it, and I would have taken another off for all of the singing, but Anne Shelton's (Gail) voice redeemed it for me. As for Aurthur Askey... either you like him or you don't. I personally don't, but every film I've seen him in was an extremely good one. Backroom Boy is one of my favorite movies. Go figure.
