Very enjoyable film with plenty of laughs, lots of fun, we need more British films like this on DVD. So much more entertaining than todays drivel (largely).
Thanks for uploading.I've searched for years to try to see more Stanley Lupino after seeing a song in a British film comedy compilation. It is tragic that copyrights are being used to keep such things off the web.
It's about time pre-1940 movies were officially declared public domain and a concerted effort made to archive all that survive. Eighty years of commercial exploitation is enough. Hollywood's Golden Age is America's biggest contribution to culture. The first half of it must become freely visible. If Biden wants another New Deal, liberating movies' heritage could be a signature scheme as the Works Project Administration was Roosevelt's.
Thanks so much for posting - even if it was 9 years ago! So good to see Australian actor John Wood at his best. Sadly, a few years later he was a POW of the Japanese and the experience apparently broke his health. He was famous for entertaining the prisoners while in Changi.
@GJNCA Laddie Cliff had been Stanley Lupino's comedy side kick in many films including Happy, and Cheer up etc. John Wood had worked in Hollywood, with Laurel and Hardy, and once tried sueing Hal Roach, and Stan Laurel, over injuries during filming Babes in Toyland.
Honeymoon for Three (1935) is due on DVD from Network in the Ealing rarities series, as well as Over she goes (1938), so with "Happy" and "Cheer up" at last Stanley Lupino's films are getting issued.
Cheer Up! is now available from the Ealing Collection on DVD, with three other Ealing films on a twin disc, no word yet about the other surviving Stanley Lupino films on DVD as yet. The quality of the Transfer on the DV is quite good, very watchable...and enjoyable. Stephen.
@APyleOfVinyl I must have recorded this in 1975/6 probably on a Sony 1" Recorder, then transferred it to VHS in the early 80's. Glad you like it - it's one of my favourite British films.
Hi Zephyr at 2.06 “Strong and hale, tooth and nail we shed blood by the gallon” I had to listen to the studio recording on Spotify before I could understand those lyrics.......now we know. Kind regards.
Thanks so much - just noticed this! How illuminating. On the studio recording, it's actually future: "WE'LL shed blood by the gallon" but it looks like Laddie Cliff dropped the double L in the film version
@swallin19. So many of our British films are unavailable. The BFI shop is filled with "Hollywood" and if things go wrong with new copyright legislation etc, then youtube will be under threat of closure. we will then have no means (except illegal) of accessing and viewing these clips. On a lighter note, yes I have the film, there is another musical sequence which I will upload soon, but sadly no others of Ida Lupino's collection.
@wsst1000 Yes, especially since it is mostly US copyright holders who hold the rights to these British films and most of them are well over 70 years old!
EHi, in reply to your question. The two words which also took me some time to figure out are FRED KARNO. He was an impresario who signed up a lot of stars and acts as part of his Fred Karno Army. It was also a term for chaos, mainly on stage. Google him it makes good reading. By the way your favourites are similar to mine. Best wishes
Chaplin and Stan Laurel were in Fred Karno's company, and decided to try their luck Stateside while touring in 'A Night in an English Music Hall'. Fred had a resort on the River Thames called the Karsino which ruined him. He wound up running a shop in a country village, bought by his fellow-pros.
@guggle86 Any chance of the scenes with Richard Murdoch as the wonderfully extremely "posh" policeman? especially the musical number where they approach the house? Fortunately the US situation on film copyright's clear, it's gone on earlier films by default, but music rights are now being invoked, and original writers rights, they forget the "rights" of viewers to see the films!
Typical silly-ass British humor and joky lyrics, but the smooth tracking and overhead camera work are magnificent. By the late 1930s UK movies were rivaling Hollywood for technique. It was the musical input and stagebound choreography that let them down, though not here or in some of Jessie Matthews's turns. And besides her, Blighty had a few attractions, such as Jack Buchanan and Gracie Fields, to match any Tinseltown name.
@GJNCA Laddie Cliff had been Stanley Lupino's comedy side kick in many films including Happy, and Cheer up etc. John Wood had worked in Hollywood, with Laurel and Hardy, and once tried sueing Hal Roach, and Stan Laurel, over injuries during filming Babes in Toyland.
@guggle86 Any chance of the scenes with Richard Murdoch as the wonderfully extremely "posh" policeman? especially the musical number where they approach the house? Fortunately the US situation on film copyright's clear, it's gone on earlier films by default, but music rights are now being invoked, and original writers rights, they forget the "rights" of viewers to see the films!
What a fun song. Always cheers me up.
Very enjoyable film with plenty of laughs, lots of fun, we need more British films like this on DVD. So much more entertaining than todays drivel (largely).
Thanks for uploading.I've searched for years to try to see more Stanley Lupino after seeing a song in a British film comedy compilation. It is tragic that copyrights are being used to keep such things off the web.
It's about time pre-1940 movies were officially declared public domain and a concerted effort made to archive all that survive. Eighty years of commercial exploitation is enough.
Hollywood's Golden Age is America's biggest contribution to culture. The first half of it must become freely visible. If Biden wants another New Deal, liberating movies' heritage could be a signature scheme as the Works Project Administration was Roosevelt's.
Wonderful! Sadly, we never see this on tv anymore 😢
Fantastic number, simply wonderful timing, and carefully filmed as well.
Thanks so much for posting - even if it was 9 years ago! So good to see Australian actor John Wood at his best. Sadly, a few years later he was a POW of the Japanese and the experience apparently broke his health. He was famous for entertaining the prisoners while in Changi.
@GJNCA
Laddie Cliff had been Stanley Lupino's comedy side kick in many films including Happy, and Cheer up etc. John Wood had worked in Hollywood, with Laurel and Hardy, and once tried sueing Hal Roach, and Stan Laurel, over injuries during filming Babes in Toyland.
Honeymoon for Three (1935) is due on DVD from Network in the Ealing rarities series, as well as Over she goes (1938), so with "Happy" and "Cheer up" at last Stanley Lupino's films are getting issued.
Cheer Up! is now available from the Ealing Collection on DVD, with three other Ealing films on a twin disc, no word yet about the other surviving Stanley Lupino films on DVD as yet. The quality of the Transfer on the DV is quite good, very watchable...and enjoyable.
Stephen.
@APyleOfVinyl I must have recorded this in 1975/6 probably on a Sony 1" Recorder, then transferred it to VHS in the early 80's. Glad you like it - it's one of my favourite British films.
Hi Zephyr at 2.06 “Strong and hale, tooth and nail we shed blood by the gallon” I had to listen to the studio recording on Spotify before I could understand those lyrics.......now we know. Kind regards.
Thanks so much - just noticed this! How illuminating. On the studio recording, it's actually future: "WE'LL shed blood by the gallon" but it looks like Laddie Cliff dropped the double L in the film version
Brilliant and witty!!
@KrazyKartoonKid I agree. Thanks for your comment.
@swallin19. So many of our British films are unavailable. The BFI shop is filled with "Hollywood" and if things go wrong with new copyright legislation etc, then youtube will be under threat of closure. we will then have no means (except illegal) of accessing and viewing these clips. On a lighter note, yes I have the film, there is another musical sequence which I will upload soon, but sadly no others of Ida Lupino's collection.
@wsst1000
Yes, especially since it is mostly US copyright holders who hold the rights to these British films and most of them are well over 70 years old!
Will do, as soon as I splice the tape leader which has broken again I will upload the clip.
EHi, in reply to your question. The two words which also took me some time to figure out are FRED KARNO. He was an impresario who signed up a lot of stars and acts as part of his Fred Karno Army. It was also a term for chaos, mainly on stage. Google him it makes good reading. By the way your favourites are similar to mine. Best wishes
Chaplin and Stan Laurel were in Fred Karno's company, and decided to try their luck Stateside while touring in 'A Night in an English Music Hall'. Fred had a resort on the River Thames called the Karsino which ruined him. He wound up running a shop in a country village, bought by his fellow-pros.
love it
@guggle86 Any chance of the scenes with Richard Murdoch as the wonderfully extremely "posh" policeman? especially the musical number where they approach the house?
Fortunately the US situation on film copyright's clear, it's gone on earlier films by default, but music rights are now being invoked, and original writers rights, they forget the "rights" of viewers to see the films!
I saw this movie as a child, and I seem to remember the line "Take my heart. Take my soul. Take my temperature." Am I mistaken?
Typical silly-ass British humor and joky lyrics, but the smooth tracking and overhead camera work are magnificent. By the late 1930s UK movies were rivaling Hollywood for technique.
It was the musical input and stagebound choreography that let them down, though not here or in some of Jessie Matthews's turns. And besides her, Blighty had a few attractions, such as Jack Buchanan and Gracie Fields, to match any Tinseltown name.
Please, can anyone tell me what the "Fricano (?) pact" was? I understand all the other references but not that one.
Locarno Pact
I believe it was the Locarno pact.
Delightful bit of nonsense.
@GJNCA
Laddie Cliff had been Stanley Lupino's comedy side kick in many films including Happy, and Cheer up etc. John Wood had worked in Hollywood, with Laurel and Hardy, and once tried sueing Hal Roach, and Stan Laurel, over injuries during filming Babes in Toyland.
Actually, I think John D Wood of that court case was a different person (See Los Angeles Times 10 June 1936).
@guggle86 Any chance of the scenes with Richard Murdoch as the wonderfully extremely "posh" policeman? especially the musical number where they approach the house?
Fortunately the US situation on film copyright's clear, it's gone on earlier films by default, but music rights are now being invoked, and original writers rights, they forget the "rights" of viewers to see the films!