User Reviews

Films made by John Baxter have a common theme.The community banding together to help out a person or institution that has fallen on hard times.I have already seen the same story used in "Music Hall" and "Say It With Flowers" both directed by Baxter in the 1930s.In this film Hazel Ascot plays the daughter of a fishmonger.When her dog patch is run over a sympathetic Enid Stamp Taylor takes the dog to a local hospital,rather than a vet,where her boyfriend doctor,John Stuart.patches up patch.In thanks Ascot puts on a show featuring child performers in order to raise the £5000 required to keep the hospital open.Nowdays this is all rather non pc it has to be said that there are some pretty good turns.Quite apart from Ascot's dancing there is a 10 year old girl who really belts out "some of these days " as if she was Sophie Tucker,and a whole phalanx of pianists.So a very interesting and entertaining film