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Let the People Sing is a 1942 British comedy film directed by John Baxter,[1] and starring Alastair Sim, Fred Emney and Edward Rigby. The film's sets were designed by R. Holmes Paul. It was made at Elstree Studios.[2]

Let the People Sing
Original British lobby card
Directed by	John Baxter
Written by	John Baxter Barbara K. Emary Geoffrey Orme J.B. Priestley (novel)
Produced by	John Baxter Wallace Orton
Starring	Alastair Sim Fred Emney Edward Rigby
Cinematography	James Wilson
Edited by	Jack Harris
Music by	Kennedy Russell
Production company	British National Films
Distributed by	Anglo-American Film Corporation
Release date	10 August 1942
Running time	105 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The screenplay concerns a small town that bands together to try to save their music hall from closure. It was based on the 1939 novel Let the People Sing by J. B. Priestley.[3]

Main cast

Critical reception

Time Out wrote "John Baxter was the British director probably least patronizing and most sympathetic to the working classes and their culture during the '30s and '40s, and even if his films now often seem naïve and simplistic, it's good at least to see an honest and humorous attempt to deal with life outside Mayfair. Less scathing than Love on the Dole (his best known film), this adaptation of a JB Priestley novel is a spritely, vaguely Capra-esque comedy... Fred Emney steals the show as a government arbitrator susceptible to the charms of alcohol."[1]

References

Bibliography

• Murphy, Robert. Realism and Tinsel: Cinema and Society in Britain, 1939-48. Routledge, 1992.

External links

• Let the People Sing at IMDb

• https://free-classic-movies.com/movies-04/04-1942-08-10-Let-the-People-Sing/index.php

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