Stanley Lupino saves Polly Walker from scoundrel Gerald Rawlinson, and is mistaken for her newly married husband in this blithe little musical comedy.
By this point, Lupino and his production unit at British International had gotten the hang of making film musicals. The songs fit the moment, even if they don't advance the plot, and director of photography Jack E. Cox -- who was also Hitchcock's cinematographer from THE RING through NUMBER SEVENTEEN -- shoots the dance numbers in medium long shot, to show the dancers in their entirety. The jokes and physical gags serve to pepper rather than to overwhelm the story, and there are even a few gags about the form; when Miss Walker complains that she can't sing because there is no music, Lupino strikes a few notes upon a convenient object and raises an unseen orchestra.
Polly Walker made only two movies, but she was active on the stage, where she was featured by George M. Cohan in two of his shows. She had been born in Chicago in 1904 and lived to be 78. I can't find much else about her because a Google search confuses her with another actress by the same name, born in 1966. Such are the vicissitudes of a none-too-diligent researcher!
By this point, Lupino and his production unit at British International had gotten the hang of making film musicals. The songs fit the moment, even if they don't advance the plot, and director of photography Jack E. Cox -- who was also Hitchcock's cinematographer from THE RING through NUMBER SEVENTEEN -- shoots the dance numbers in medium long shot, to show the dancers in their entirety. The jokes and physical gags serve to pepper rather than to overwhelm the story, and there are even a few gags about the form; when Miss Walker complains that she can't sing because there is no music, Lupino strikes a few notes upon a convenient object and raises an unseen orchestra.
Polly Walker made only two movies, but she was active on the stage, where she was featured by George M. Cohan in two of his shows. She had been born in Chicago in 1904 and lived to be 78. I can't find much else about her because a Google search confuses her with another actress by the same name, born in 1966. Such are the vicissitudes of a none-too-diligent researcher!
