British Comedy Guide

Cheer Boys Cheer (1939)

Early Ealing comedy with the likes of the Balcons and Neame, all later to make bigger names for themselves with said company and/or David Lean.

Bit of a romp, with a bit of slapstick and familiar territory with the "team" of Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt, who of course made big names for themselves in the contemporary Will Hay films. Interesting little goof, which they left in for some reason, or didn't notice (?) - just before a bar-room brawl, Marriott calls Moffatt "Graham" and not his character name of Albert.

So, story not too dissimilar to the 1937 "Cotton Queen" I reviewed in February 2021................

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...........where that story was about two fiercely rival cotton mills being brought together when the son and daughter of the mill's owners fall in love - in this one it is rival breweries, with one massive one trying to take over a small family run one, and the son and daughter blah de blah.

Not a riot of fun, but well worth a watch, if only to see the Marriott and Moffatt duo, as there was no one else of note in it, except maybe for Edmund Gwenn (big brewery owner) who went on to make a small name for himself in Hollywood.

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