What Would You Do, Chums?

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What Would You Do, Chums?
Directed by John Baxter
Written by
Produced by John Corfield
Starring
Cinematography James Wilson
Edited by Reginald Mills
Music by Kennedy Russell
Production
company
Distributed byAnglo-American Film Corporation
Release date
  • 11 December 1939 (1939-12-11)
Running time
75 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

What Would You Do, Chums? is a 1939 British comedy film directed by John Baxter and starring Syd Walker, Jean Gillie, Cyril Chamberlain and Peter Gawthorne. [1] It was made at Elstree Studios. [2] The film's title was the popular catchphrase of comedian Syd Walker in BBC radio's Band Waggon series. [3]

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Cast

Production

The project was originally called Mr Walker Wants to Know. John Corfleld successfully defended an action by Ernest Dudley, a radio writer, to stop him from using that title and the title What Would You Do, Chums? which Dudley claimed was based on a script he had sold to Jack Buchanan which was subsequently sold to British National. [4] [5]

References

  1. ↑ "What Would You Do Chums? (1939)". Archived from the original on 16 January 2009.
  2. ↑ Wood p.101
  3. ↑ Partridge, Eric (2 September 2003). A Dictionary of Catch Phrases. Routledge. ISBN   9781134929993 – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ "London calling". Variety. 6 September 1939. p. 31.
  5. ↑ "Film copyright action". Kinematograph Weekly. 17 August 1939. p. 7.

Bibliography

What Would You Do, Chums? at IMDb


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