London Town

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An aging music-hall performer returns to London believing he's the star of a new show. When he discovers that he's only slated to be the understudy, his daughter sabotages the revue's star i... Read allAn aging music-hall performer returns to London believing he's the star of a new show. When he discovers that he's only slated to be the understudy, his daughter sabotages the revue's star in order to get him back into the spotlight.An aging music-hall performer returns to London believing he's the star of a new show. When he discovers that he's only slated to be the understudy, his daughter sabotages the revue's star in order to get him back into the spotlight.

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Trivia
This film was Britain's first major Technicolor musical and also became the most notorious critical and box-office flop of the postwar British cinema and the largest bomb ever for its production company, the famed J. Arthur Rank Organisation.

Quotes
Belgrave: [to Peggy] God help the male population when you grow up!

Crazy credits
Closing credits: The characters depicted in this photoplay are fictional any similarity to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

Alternate versions
UK premiere version (126 mins) UK theatrical release print (95 mins)(shortened, re-edited) US theatrical release print (75 mins)

Connections
Featured in Saturday Live: Pilot (1985)

Soundtracks
You Can't Keep a Good Dreamer Down
(uncredited)
Music by Jimmy Van Heusen
Lyrics by Johnny Burke
Performed by Sid Field

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I still don't know what the Amsted Way is

Petula Clark stars as a young girl in this confused (post-modernist ?) musical, with a whole cast of down-on-their-luck stars producing a variety of songs on some very expensive sets that don't seem to _quite_ make sense.

There is evidence of much cutting, particularly in the 'gay' scene (well that's what it looked like to me) which cuts out and runs out of true, but also with the fact that the story is often incoherent and introduces unexplained new elements (such as 'The Amsted Way' ??).

The comedy act at the end is terrible, and the lead is as well.

Wildly expensively made in Technicolour, perhaps as an experiment ? (Maybe that's why J. Arthur kept in black & white for so long).