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Champagne Charlie (1944)

Comedy | 105 minutes
3,30 5 votes

Genre: Comedy / Drama

Duration: 105 minuten

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Alberto Cavalcanti

Stars: Tommy Trinder, Stanley Holloway and Betty Warren

IMDb score: 6,5 (318)

Releasedate: 25 August 1944

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Champagne Charlie plot

This film is about the life of George Leybourne (Tommy Trinder), nicknamed Champagne Charlie, who started singing in bars and pubs in the 19th century. He became a huge star and performed in well-known musical theaters of the time. An ongoing competition for the best 'drinking song' was going on between Leybourne and fellow singer The Great Vance (Stanley Holloway).

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Actors and actresses

The Great Vance

Bessie Bellwood

Champagne Charlie

Dolly Bellwood

Duckworth (Chairman of the Mogador)

Bessie's Dresser

Cora (Mogador Barmaid)

Mogador Stage Manager

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A fun and sweet film about the rise of the music-hall, here still in the prenatal phase of the "ale-houses" where entertainers come to sing songs to whet the listeners' thirst. Perhaps the film is also too cute and sweet, because after its release the general complaint was soon that things were a lot less civilized at the time than the film suggests, and that it was about drinking parties rather than a kind of proto-revue, with the result that we are presented here with more of a Dickensian cosiness and valor than the poverty, squalor and unsanitary conditions that were London's reality in Victorian times (the film opens in 1860). Anyone who can overlook that gets a film with two sympathetic leads, countless pleasant but not particularly catchy or varied revue songs, careful and detailed sets and an enormous laundry list of English "character actors" who sometimes only get one or two scenes but who nevertheless skillfully and efficiently portray their characters in it. Although this is a film from the Ealing studio, it does not yet reach the level of their later classic comedies, but those interested in that period of English cinema will find much to their liking in this lovingly sketched portrait.

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