''Demobbed'' is a 1944 British
comedy film
A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...
directed by
John E. Blakeley and starring
Norman Evans
Norman Evans (11 June 1901 – 25 November 1962) was an English stage and radio comedian, best remembered for his sketches and programmes entitled "Over the Garden Wall".
Biography
He was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, and started his working li ...
,
Nat Jackley
Nat Jackley (born Nathaniel Tristram Jackley Hirsch; 16 July 1909 – 17 September 1988) was an English comic actor who starred in revue, variety, film and pantomime from the 1920s to the mid-1980s. His trademark rubber-neck dance, skeletal fr ...
,
Gus McNaughton
Gus McNaughton (29 July 1881 – 18 November 1969), also known as Augustus Le Clerq and Augustus Howard, was an English film actor. He appeared in 70 films between 1930 and 1947. He was born in London and died in Castor, Cambridgeshire. He ...
and
Dan Young
Daniel Daly Young (19 April 1899 – 1970) was a British comedian and film actor. He featured in a number of Mancunian Films productions often appearing with Frank Randle.
Selected filmography
* '' Dodging the Dole'' (1936)
* '' Calling All Cr ...
. Billed as "a musical comedy burlesque," its plot concerns a group of ex-soldiers who attempt to gain employment after being demobbed from the army.
Cast
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Norman Evans
Norman Evans (11 June 1901 – 25 November 1962) was an English stage and radio comedian, best remembered for his sketches and programmes entitled "Over the Garden Wall".
Biography
He was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, and started his working li ...
- Norman
*
Nat Jackley
Nat Jackley (born Nathaniel Tristram Jackley Hirsch; 16 July 1909 – 17 September 1988) was an English comic actor who starred in revue, variety, film and pantomime from the 1920s to the mid-1980s. His trademark rubber-neck dance, skeletal fr ...
- Nat
*
Dan Young
Daniel Daly Young (19 April 1899 – 1970) was a British comedian and film actor. He featured in a number of Mancunian Films productions often appearing with Frank Randle.
Selected filmography
* '' Dodging the Dole'' (1936)
* '' Calling All Cr ...
- Dan
*
Betty Jumel
Betty Jumel (5 May 190114 October 1990) was a British variety hall entertainer and actress.
Early life
Betty Jumel was born Amy Ada Beatrice Grimshaw in Fairhaven, Lytham St Annes, Lancashire in 1901. She was only 10 years old when she made h ...
- Betty
* Tony Dalton - Billy Brown
* Jimmy Plant - Graham
*
George Merritt - James Bentley
* Fred Kitchen - Black
*
Arthur Hambling
Arthur Hambling (14 March 1888 – 6 December 1952) was a British actor, on stage from 1912, and best known for appearances in the films ''Henry V'' (1944) and ''The Lavender Hill Mob'' (1951). In 1939 he appeared in the West End in N.C. Hunter ...
- Curtis
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Gus McNaughton
Gus McNaughton (29 July 1881 – 18 November 1969), also known as Augustus Le Clerq and Augustus Howard, was an English film actor. He appeared in 70 films between 1930 and 1947. He was born in London and died in Castor, Cambridgeshire. He ...
- Capt. Gregson
* Marianne Lincoln - Marianne
*
Anne Firth - Norma Deane
* Neville Mapp - John Bentley
*
Webster Booth
Webster Booth (21 January 1902 – 21 June 1984) was an English tenor, best remembered as the duettist partner of Anne Ziegler. He was also one of the finest tenors of his generation and was a distinguished oratorio soloist.
He was a chorister ...
- Himself
*
Anne Ziegler
Anne Ziegler (22 June 1910 – 13 October 2003) was an English singer, known for her light operatic duets with her husband Webster Booth. The pair were known as the "Sweethearts in Song" and were among the most famous and popular British music ...
- Herself
*
Sydney Bromley
Sidney Charles Bromley (24 July 1909 – 14 August 1987GRO Register of Deaths: AUG 1987 18 2293 WORTHING - Sydney Charles Bromley DoB = 24 Jul 1909 aged 78), credited as Sydney Bromley, was an English character actor. He appeared in more than si ...
- BBC Announcer
* Kay Lewis - Norman Evan's Partner
* Freddie Watts - Landlord of the Red Lion
*
- the Bookie
* Noel Dainton - Police Inspector
* Marjorie Gresley - the Mother
*
Angela Glynne
Angela Glynne (7 September 1933 in Middlesex, England – 22 April 2008 in Northridge, California aged 74) was a British film actress.
Selected filmography
* '' Bank Holiday'' (1938)
* '' Those Kids from Town'' (1942)
* ''Gert and Daisy Clean ...
- the Child
Critical reception
''
TV Guide
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'' called it an "Occasionally okay slapstick comedy."
References
External links
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1944 films
1944 comedy films
Films directed by John E. Blakeley
British comedy films
British black-and-white films
Films scored by Percival Mackey
Films shot in Greater Manchester
1940s English-language films
1940s British films
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