Caught this on Talking Pictures Channel. The write-up gave the impression of a completely different film, but once I got into it, I found it very amusing. Apparently based on a play, the scenario is rather like a sitcom and bears some similarities to The Huggets series. Though made in the fifties, the story is set during World War 2. Jack Warner is Sam Twigg, a munitions worker whose daughter Anne is in love with an RAF officer from a titled family who do not approve due to her "social standing". Cue lots of working class indignation interspersed with jokey episodes in the pub, down in the air raid shelter and in the Twigg's living room which is continually invaded by their scrounging neighbours. Things change when Anne's sweetheart goes missing in action. Cue families coming together with mutual empathy and understanding. But it all ends happily. Probably could have run to a series but the dated setting was against it. We get an indication of Jack Warner's fame and popularity when Sam Twigg asks for the radio to be switched off when Warner's real self features on it in a sketch from Garrison Theatre, a wartime comedy show.
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