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Tuesday, Aug 21, 1990
Over She Goes
One of the delights of British cinema of the thirties (and a largely un-exported delight at that) were the musical comedies that stars like Stanley Lupino and Lupino Lane wrote and presented on the London stage, and then immediately transferred to film. All of them were unpretentious, merely an excuse for song, dance and gag, but they were often surprisingly vivacious and handsomely mounted. Over She Goes, written by and starring Stanley Lupino (Ida's father) and directed by silent veteran Graham Cutts, is not only a fascinating record of a typical London stage show, but it's sprightly and amusing on its own level, with some quite remarkable camerawork in one of the song numbers. Lupino works here with his perennial partner Laddie Cliff, and the supporting cast includes Sally Gray, Max Baer and Clare Luce, as well as performers better known on British radio-Syd Walker and Richard Murdoch among them. --WKE The Story: A typical triangle, only doubled: three women are impatient for their beaux to propose and decide to grease the wheels of progress. Their scheme sets the stage for many an amusing situation.
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