I thank the other reviewer for giving an explanation as to why this film is only 53 minutes long.Can I suggest that a more plausibly explanation is that the film was subsequently reissued as the bottom half of a double bill and chopped down to its current length,with the remainder being thrown away.This would be the only reason to explain why the film becomes so choppy in its later stages.there is the subplot where Jewel and Warris go to collect the mad deserter from the police station.Next we see them they are in the countryside ,the deserter has a gun and is firing at them.Jewl and Warris disappear for the finale when the stealing sub plot comes to the fore.It is interesting to see Jewl and Warris in action,but it is a bit surprising that audiences still had an appetite for soldiering comedies 4 years after the end of the war.
2 Reviews
"You've got the face of a pawn shop."
morrison-dylan-fan12 February 2010
Warning: Spoilers
Whilst i was reading the very well-written booklet for the film Loves a Luxery,i found out that the main extra was another film!,even though the film has been damaged over time due to no one sadly taking any care of the negative.I still found it to be an enjoyable post-war British comedy. The plot:
Two friends get drafted to an army base,that surprisingly is the same base where one of the friends sister (Joan) is also working at.
During their time there,they try to get some romances going with the few single girls at the base (almost all the girls are having relationships with much higher-ranking officers)Things start to get tough for everyone,when someone breaks into the army bases safe,and steals all the cash,and it seems that someone is trying to frame Joan for the robbery.
View on the film:
The first thing i have to mention is the amount of trouble the film has taken to survive at all.With a 53 minute cut of the film being the only known copy of the film.One of the surprising things for me were the performances of Ian Fleming (who went on to appear in the stunning TV show The Prisnor) Jimmy Jewel,Ben Warriss and Josef Locke.Locke (who is billed in the credits as "Britians greatest tenor")gives a fun Benny Hill style performance as one of the army bosses,and whose singing (in the only song that has survived-there were originally three songs)is very impressive.The double team of Jewel and Warriss (whose only surviving film appearance as an act is sadly only this film)do some very enjoyable slap-stick style antics for all the family to enjoy.
Final view on the film:
An enjoyable post-war comedy,that has thankfully survived (even though it is a much shorter cut)
Two friends get drafted to an army base,that surprisingly is the same base where one of the friends sister (Joan) is also working at.
During their time there,they try to get some romances going with the few single girls at the base (almost all the girls are having relationships with much higher-ranking officers)Things start to get tough for everyone,when someone breaks into the army bases safe,and steals all the cash,and it seems that someone is trying to frame Joan for the robbery.
View on the film:
The first thing i have to mention is the amount of trouble the film has taken to survive at all.With a 53 minute cut of the film being the only known copy of the film.One of the surprising things for me were the performances of Ian Fleming (who went on to appear in the stunning TV show The Prisnor) Jimmy Jewel,Ben Warriss and Josef Locke.Locke (who is billed in the credits as "Britians greatest tenor")gives a fun Benny Hill style performance as one of the army bosses,and whose singing (in the only song that has survived-there were originally three songs)is very impressive.The double team of Jewel and Warriss (whose only surviving film appearance as an act is sadly only this film)do some very enjoyable slap-stick style antics for all the family to enjoy.
Final view on the film:
An enjoyable post-war comedy,that has thankfully survived (even though it is a much shorter cut)
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