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Home Sweet Home (1945 film)

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Home Sweet Home
Directed byJohn E. Blakeley
Written byStory And Scenario:
Roney Parsons
Anthony Toner
Comedy Scenes devised & arranged by:
Arthur Mertz
Produced byJohn E. Blakeley
StarringFrank Randle
CinematographyGeoffrey Faithfull
Edited byV. Sagovsky
Music byPercival Mackey
Production
company
Distributed byButcher's Film Service (U.K.)
Release date
  • 29 October 1945 (1945-10-29) (U.K.)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Home Sweet Home is a 1945 British musical comedy film directed by John E. Blakeley, written by Roney Parsons and Anthony Toner, and starring Frank Randle, Nicolette Roeg (sister of director Nicolas Roeg) and Tony Pendrell.[1][2] Set in the fictitious town of Redvale, the film is largely a vehicle for slapstick routines by Randle.

Plot

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Spirited orphan Jacqueline Chantry is the chauffeuse to wealthy colonel Wright and his family. Son Eric Wright and Jacqueline fall in love and plan to marry, but the class conscious colonel's wife refuses to give her blessing. Saddened, Jacqueline packs her bags and leaves; eventually becoming a nightclub singer. Eric chases after her, but she's already found Frank, a likeable chap who discovers that Jacqueline is in reality a wealthy heiress.

Cast

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Critical reception

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In contemporary reviews, Kine Weekly called the film "a strong combination of robust box-office comedy with powerful radio and variety appeal.[3] Monthly Film Bulletin said "Frank Randle wends his way through an impossible plot with his familiar brand of slap-stick comedy and usually manages to leave a trail of laughs behind him, particularly at the beginning, when he confuses the birth of Quads to his wife with the four puppies his son brings home."[4]

In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "average", writing: "Unsophisticated farce-musical, sometimes quite funny."[5]

Sky Movies gave it two out of five stars, concluding the film was "Only mild entertainment even when it was made and rather dated now";[2]

The reviewer for TV Guide wrote: "It passes the time, but it's not especially memorable."[6]

References

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  1. ^ ""Home Sweet Home"". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Home Sweet Home".
  3. ^ ""Home Sweet Home"". Kine Weekly. 342 (1999): 43. 9 August 1945. ProQuest 2687783856 – via ProQuest.
  4. ^ ""Home Sweet Home"". Monthly Film Bulletin. 12 (133): 93. 1 January 1945. ProQuest 1305806538 – via ProQuest.
  5. ^ Quinlan, David (1984). British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd. p. 218. ISBN 0-7134-1874-5.
  6. ^ "Home Sweet Home".
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