This'll Make You Whistle

This'll Make You Whistle
Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Produced by Herbert Wilcox
Written by Guy Bolton
Fred Thompson (as Frederick A. Thompson)
Starring Jack Buchanan
Music by George Windeatt
Cinematography Freddie Young
Edited by Frederick Wilson
Production
company
Distributed by General Film Distributors (UK)
Release date
 1 November 1936 (UK)
Running time
 79 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English

This'll Make You Whistle is a 1936 British musical comedy film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Jack Buchanan, Elsie Randolph and William Kendall.[1] The film was based on a stage play which Buchanan had starred in.

Synopsis

A man-about-town accidentally finds himself engaged to two woman at the same time, the horse-mad Laura and the sweet-natured Joan who is dominated by her disapproving mother. His attempts to convince the guardian of the former that he is completely unsuited to marriage, while trying to persuade the mother of the latter that he is are further complicated by the behavior of his two friends and the appearance of an attractive life model named Bobbie Rivers. Further confusion ensues when the action shifts from London to the French resort of Le Touquet.

Cast

Production

It was known as The Melody of London.[2]

Critical reception

The New York Times wrote, "It isn't enough that Mars is attacking; England has just exploded a hot-air bomb in the immediate vicinity of the Fifty-fifth Street Playhouse. "This'll Make You Whistle" was the tag on it. We're whistling all right—one of those barely audible sounds made by pursing the lips and exhaling. Herbert Wilcox, who should have known better, launched the projectile, first charging it with people like Jack Buchanan, Elsie Randolph and Antony Holles and detonating it with a slow-burning musical comedy plot about a man with one fiancée too many. Typical line: "You're the bigamist fool in London." Typical scene: Mr. Buchanan and a pal, disguised as bearded gendarmes, being chased by twenty bearded gendarmes. Typical reaction; Ouch!"[3]

References

  1. ↑ "This'll Make You Whistle (1936) - BFI". BFI.
  2. ↑ "HERBERT WILCOX'S PROGRAMME". The West Australian. 52, (15, 542). Western Australia. 17 April 1936. p. 2. Retrieved 17 August 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9903EEDA163BEE3ABC4953DFB7678383629EDE
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