I Thank You | |
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Directed by | Marcel Varnel |
Screenplay by | |
Based on | an original story by Howard Irving Young |
Produced by | Edward Black |
Starring | See below |
Cinematography | Arthur Crabtree |
Edited by | R. E. Dearing |
Music by | Noel Gay |
Production company | |
Distributed by | General Film Distributors (UK) |
Release date |
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Running time | 83 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
I Thank You is a 1941 black and white British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Graham Moffatt and Moore Marriott. [1] It was produced by Edward Black at Gainsborough Pictures. [2] The title of the film is the literal version of Arthur Askey's famous catch-phrase which he idiosyncratically pronounced as "Ay-thang-yaw".
In London during the Second World War at the time of the Blitz, Arthur and Stinker are a couple of out-of-work variety entertainers who use great ingenuity in their efforts to get financial assistance to "put on a show". Hoping to put their proposal to the formidable Lady Randall, a former music hall star, they infiltrate her house, with Stinker in the guise of a servant and Arthur (in drag) as a cook. After some farcical events, they achieve their aim when Lady Randall is persuaded to sing an old music hall favourite " Waiting at the Church" at an impromptu show located underground at Aldwych tube station, being used during the war as an underground bomb shelter. [3]
The Radio Times gave the film two out of five stars, and wrote, "not even the hard-working Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch plus Will Hay old boys Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt can warm up this tepid "upstairs-downstairs" charade"; [4] whereas Sky Movies rated the film three out of five stars, describing it as a "cheerful, long-unseen British wartime romp...It's all directed by that master of comic organisation, Frenchman Marcel ( Oh, Mr Porter!) Varnel. It's not one of his best, and some of it looks pretty dated now, but some scenes still raise a hearty chuckle." [5]
I Thank You | |
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Directed by | Marcel Varnel |
Screenplay by | |
Based on | an original story by Howard Irving Young |
Produced by | Edward Black |
Starring | See below |
Cinematography | Arthur Crabtree |
Edited by | R. E. Dearing |
Music by | Noel Gay |
Production company | |
Distributed by | General Film Distributors (UK) |
Release date |
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Running time | 83 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
I Thank You is a 1941 black and white British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Graham Moffatt and Moore Marriott. [1] It was produced by Edward Black at Gainsborough Pictures. [2] The title of the film is the literal version of Arthur Askey's famous catch-phrase which he idiosyncratically pronounced as "Ay-thang-yaw".
In London during the Second World War at the time of the Blitz, Arthur and Stinker are a couple of out-of-work variety entertainers who use great ingenuity in their efforts to get financial assistance to "put on a show". Hoping to put their proposal to the formidable Lady Randall, a former music hall star, they infiltrate her house, with Stinker in the guise of a servant and Arthur (in drag) as a cook. After some farcical events, they achieve their aim when Lady Randall is persuaded to sing an old music hall favourite " Waiting at the Church" at an impromptu show located underground at Aldwych tube station, being used during the war as an underground bomb shelter. [3]
The Radio Times gave the film two out of five stars, and wrote, "not even the hard-working Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch plus Will Hay old boys Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt can warm up this tepid "upstairs-downstairs" charade"; [4] whereas Sky Movies rated the film three out of five stars, describing it as a "cheerful, long-unseen British wartime romp...It's all directed by that master of comic organisation, Frenchman Marcel ( Oh, Mr Porter!) Varnel. It's not one of his best, and some of it looks pretty dated now, but some scenes still raise a hearty chuckle." [5]