I only watched this because it was Gracie Fields' very first film, with the song that was to become her "theme tune" - "Sally (Pride of Our Alley)", a song she said many, many years later, it was only in a recent performance she realised it was a song that should be sung by a man.
Bit clonky and amateurish, but then it was filmed in the early 1930s; but none the less it was a good story (written in part by dirty old man Miles Malleson) and it's stretching it a bit to call it a comedy - I would say it was more a musical, as "Sally" featured a few times (!) and Gracie did get to sing two or three other songs.
So, Gracie's love goes off to war (WWI), gets seriously injured and thinking he wouldn't make a good husband, gets a mate to tell Gracie he was actually killed, which leaves the way open for his mate and all and sundry to win her hand in marriage. The original injured love interest makes a remarkable recovery, and with limp finally goes back home to claim her hand, but things are put in his way, not least by a flighty piece of fluff who does her best to get him in bed and put him off Gracie, and vice-versa.
The girl sees the error of her ways and how she has done the dirty on Gracie, so makes amends and the happy couple are reunited.
5/10
