A chimney-sweep's son is persuaded into helping an opponent in a by-election.A chimney-sweep's son is persuaded into helping an opponent in a by-election.A chimney-sweep's son is persuaded into helping an opponent in a by-election.
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Charles K. Gerrard
- Mr. Whitman
- (uncredited)
Mike Johnson
- Bert
- (uncredited)
Vi Kaley
- Barrington-Oakes's Housekeeper
- (uncredited)
Enid Stamp-Taylor
- Elvira Whitman
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaA "quota quickie."
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More history than hysteria.
This one has become, over nearly ninety years, more of a social artefact than an entertainment.
The plot about chimney sweep Leslie Fuller who runs for the spot of local member (cf. the George Formby HE SNOOPS TO CONQUER) is passably lively though the music hall sketches they try to incorporate register as feeble - the baker and the sweep getting covered with one another's products, smashing Blimpish aristocrat Maltby's family china and using items from round the room to make over the singer doing Loch Lomond into a Scotsman. It all plays better than similar material in the CARRY ON films twenty years later.
However it's take on politics, ("Socialism. communism and rheumatism") the woman's place, class ("The working man's wife who is more like a mother to him") and regional divisions will put the teeth on edge of even the casual viewer.
Young John Mills joins in nervously but the only character who qualifies for any sympathy is a blonded Enid Stamp Taylor as the villain's citified daughter.
The plot about chimney sweep Leslie Fuller who runs for the spot of local member (cf. the George Formby HE SNOOPS TO CONQUER) is passably lively though the music hall sketches they try to incorporate register as feeble - the baker and the sweep getting covered with one another's products, smashing Blimpish aristocrat Maltby's family china and using items from round the room to make over the singer doing Loch Lomond into a Scotsman. It all plays better than similar material in the CARRY ON films twenty years later.
However it's take on politics, ("Socialism. communism and rheumatism") the woman's place, class ("The working man's wife who is more like a mother to him") and regional divisions will put the teeth on edge of even the casual viewer.
Young John Mills joins in nervously but the only character who qualifies for any sympathy is a blonded Enid Stamp Taylor as the villain's citified daughter.
- Mozjoukine
- May 25, 2020
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- Runtime1 hour 13 minutes
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