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Bookmark this pageHoots Mon! (1939)
Director: Roy William Neill
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From Time Out Film Guide
Ramshackle vehicle for the Cheeky Chappie, who used to appear on stage through a trapdoor, 'up from the sewers, like the jokes you're going to get': his act is carefully deodorised here, though he still makes a pretence of keeping a wary eye on the wings in expectation of being hauled off-stage. The excuse for a plot has him get rather more than he bargained for when he accepts a challenge from a rival Scots comedienne (Desmond) to try his Cockney comedy on her native folk. Fast-moving, cheerful and a mite tiresome, it is enlivened by Desmond's impersonations of Miller himself, Syd Walker, Bette Davis and - best of all - a hideously simpering Elisabeth Bergner.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Roy William Neill
Cast: Max Miller, Florence Desmond, Hal Walters, Davina Craig, Garry Marsh, Gordon McLeod full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 77 mins
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