As far as films were concerned he was never Leading Man material, far less suited to musical comedy. The rest of the players fill their roles well, particularly Max Millar in his brief bit as a record scout. One of the faults of the film is that we never get to know the Dinky-dos as well as we do in the book, but at least the actors manage to give the impression of having backstories worth knowing. Director Victor Saville does well by his material, and although the tour of the country is largely represented by stock footage and a blaze of theatre posters, he still manages to convey a sense of the nation as it was in 1933. In his film, Saville achieves the same.
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Gwen Rawlings is sweet sixteen and looking for a good time. After losing her job at a pawnbroker's for borrowing jewellery, she is given a beating by her brutal father. She leaves home and gets a job as a hatcheck girl in a night club. After absconding from there she is caught in a spiral of crime that leads to murder. This film was part of the great moral debate that followed the case of Elizabeth Jones who took up with a G.I. deserter and went on trial for the murder of a taxi driver they robbed.