From playful romantic comedies to variety extravaganzas the British musical films of the 1930s offered audiences a source of much-needed escapism throughout the decade haunted by the Great Depression and the growing menace of war. Often adapting much-loved hits of the music hall as well as serving as vehicles for the era's composers performers and band leaders they showcased home-grown talent alongside some of Hollywood's most bankable stars. This ongoing multi-volume collection makes available a wealth of rare gems from the very earliest days of the British talkies... many of which have remained unseen since their original release; each film is presented uncut in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Blossom Time (1934)World-renowned tenor Richard Tauber features in a dramatisation of the life of Schubert focusing on the composer's unrequited love for a dance master's daughter. Black and White / 86 mins / 1.33:1 / Mono / English Over The Garden Wall (1934)An aunt objects to the romance between her nephew and a neighbour's niece and the two aunts step in to put an end to the love affair - with comic consequences...Black and White / 64 mins / 1.33:1 / Mono / English Mister Cinders (1934)The Cinderella story is reversed in this light-hearted adaptation with Cinders a young man who eventually wins the 'princess' - in this case an oil millionaire's daughter!Black and White / 69 mins / 1.33:1 / Mono / English Everything Is Rhythm (1936)Based on the spectacular rise of bandleader and vaudevillian Harry Roy this is the comic tale of a Ruritanian princess who elopes with a dance-band leader.Black and White / 69 mins / 1.33:1 / Mono / English [show more]
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Collection of British musicals from the 1930s. 'Everything Is Rhythm' (1936) stars Harry Roy as Harry Wade, a member of a band performing at a high-end hotel who falls in love with an intoxicatingly beautiful princess. 'Over the Garden Wall' (1934) sees Bobby Howes and Marian Marsh star as husband and wife in this classic British comedy. In 'Mister Cinders' (1934), Clifford Mollison plays Jim Lancaster, the adopted son of Sir George (Edmund Breon) and Lady Agatha (Esme Church). With plans to marry off their sons to wealthy young ladies, the Lancasters are shocked and disgusted when Lumley (Kenneth Western) and Guy (George Western) declare their interest in lesser women. 'Blossom Time' (1934) is a drama based on the opera of the same name by Heinrich Berte. Richard Tauber plays Franz Schubert, a composer who helps out a girl with whom he is secretly in love.
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