"Gracie Fields...owes much of her fame and fortune to her remarkable voice--an instrument which she used with astonishing and frequently reckless versatility.... Her forthright, honest and humorous personality won the hearts of a vast British public, at first in the music halls and subsequently in the cinema (during the 1930s she was the most popular and highest paid film star in the country). The optimism she conveyed was at once brash and vulnerable and she knew well how to invest with genuine pathos the simple tales of working-class love and tribulations she specialized in.... (Sally in Our Alley was) Gracie Fields' first film, ostensibly a comedy, but in parts, quite a sad little film. Gracie plays Sally, living in a London slum in 1930, still hopefully waiting for her fiancé to return from World War I. She works as a singer in a workmen's cafe, turning down proposals of marriage from the proprietor. Florence Desmond plays a crafty slum girl who leads the lame ex-soldier boyfriend into the cafe just as Gracie is pouring her heart into the title song, 'Sally'." Tommy Keen, National Film Theatre, London