Radio Pirates

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Radio Pirates
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Directed by Ivar Campbell
Written by Donovan Pedelty
Produced by Norman Loudon
Starring
Music byDonovan Pedelty
Production
company
Distributed byAssociated Producers & Distributors
Release date
  • March 1935 (1935-03)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Radio Pirates, also known as Big Ben Calling, is a 1935 British musical film directed by Ivar Campbell and starring Leslie French, Mary Lawson and Enid Stamp-Taylor. [1] It was written by Donovan Pedelty, with music and lyrics by Mark Lubbock, and made at Shepperton Studios. [2]

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Plot

To save themselves from financial ruin, the owner of a radio shop and his friends start a pirate radio station. The police pursue them and they end up in the tower of Big Ben.

Cast

Reception

Kine Weekly wrote: "Happy, friendly radio musical romance, a trifle loose in construction but admirably presented and richer in ideas and ingenuity than many of its successful predecessors." [3]

Picturegoer wrote: "Net a very well constructed story, but one which has some ingenuity of idea, bright gags, and good 'turns' ... Hughie Green gives some exceedingly clever imitations, and both Roy Fox and his Band and Teddy Brown are in excellent form. Farcical situations are well nandled and cabaret settings lavish." [4]

References

  1. ↑ "Radio Pirates". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
  2. ↑ Wood, Linda (1986). British Films, 1927–1939 (PDF). British Film Institute. p. 83. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 October 2024. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
  3. ↑ "Radio Pirates". Kine Weekly . 217 (1455): 21. 7 March 1935. ProQuest   2338231078.
  4. ↑ "Radio Pirates". Picturegoer . 5: 24. 1 August 1935. ProQuest   1771190753.


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