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Shipyard Sally

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A lancashire singer buys a pub in Clydebank and hits money troubles when the shipbyards are closed. She takes a petition to London to try to get them reopened.

Release Date : 1939-09-30

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Status : Released

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Cast

Gracie Fields

Character Name : Sally Fitzgerald

Original Name : Gracie Fields

Gender : Female

Sydney Howard

Character Name : Major Fitzgerald

Original Name : Sydney Howard

Gender : Male

Morton Selten

Character Name : Lord Alfred Randall

Original Name : Morton Selten

Gender : Male

Norma Varden

Character Name : Lady Patricia Randall

Original Name : Norma Varden

Gender : Female

Oliver Wakefield

Character Name : Forsyth

Original Name : Oliver Wakefield

Gender : Male

Tucker McGuire

Character Name : Linda Marsh

Original Name : Tucker McGuire

Gender : Female

MacDonald Parke

Character Name : Diggs

Original Name : MacDonald Parke

Gender : Male

Richard Cooper

Character Name : Sir John Treacher

Original Name : Richard Cooper

Gender : Male

Monty Banks

Character Name :

Original Name : Monty Banks

Gender : Male

Joan Cowick

Character Name :

Original Name : Joan Cowick

Gender : Male

Reviews

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CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2025-01-05

"Sally" (Gracie Fields) finds herself the owner of a pub on the banks of the Clyde just as HM Queen Mary has launched her namesake ocean liner - a testament to the huge industry thriving on the banks of that river at the time. Well, that was the theory anyway. Next thing, the jobs have dried up and everyone is flat broke. "Sally" tries her best to support her out-of-work population, but eventually even she runs out of cash and bankruptcy beckons. Then a newspaper headline announces that the government is to review the future of shipbuilding there and so the workers unanimously elect her as their spokesperson to head to London and persuade "Lord Randall" (Morton Selten) and just as importantly, his wife (Norma Varden) of the merits of saving the yards and the jobs. The fact that she's a Lancastrian lass might make her an unlikely ambassador for a bunch of Scottish welders, but can she up her game enough to swing it? This is quite a jolly vehicle for a star who joins in wholeheartedly, gels amiably with Sydney Howard's theatrical "Fitzgerald" and belts out a couple of toe-tappers like "Wish Me Luck..." as well a few traditional Scots songs. On the downside, someone ought to have told Monty Banks that Scotch is whisky, no person ever refers to themselves as Scotch but that's a guid auld bit of pedantry as this hit the screens just as WWII started to gather menace. The audio doesn't really do her any favours, but it's still quite enjoyable.