Demobbed (1944 film) explained

Demobbed
Director:	John E. Blakeley
Producer:	F.W. Baker John E. Blakeley
Music:	Percival Mackey
Cinematography:	Geoffrey Faithfull
Editing:	Ted Richards
Studio:	Mancunian Films & Butcher's Film Service (co-production)
Distributor:	Butcher's Film Service (U.K.)
Runtime:	96 minutes
Country:	United Kingdom

Demobbed is a 1944 British comedy film directed by John E. Blakeley and starring Norman Evans, Nat Jackley, Gus McNaughton and Dan Young.^[1] Billed as "a musical comedy burlesque," its plot concerns a group of ex-soldiers who attempt to gain employment after being demobbed from the army.

Cast

• Norman Evans as Norman
• Nat Jackley as Nat
• Dan Young as Dan
• Betty Jumel as Betty
• Tony Dalton as Billy Brown
• Jimmy Plant as Graham
• George Merritt as James Bentley
• Fred Kitchen as Black
• Arthur Hambling as Curtis
• Gus McNaughton as Capt. Gregson
• Marianne Lincoln as Marianne
• Anne Firth as Norma Deane
• Neville Mapp as John Bentley
• Webster Booth as himself
• Anne Ziegler as herself
• Sydney Bromley as BBC announcer
• Kay Lewis as Norman Evan's partner
• Freddie Watts as Landlord of the Red Lion
• Edgar Driver as the bookie
• Noel Dainton as Police Inspector
• Marjorie Gresley as the mother
• Angela Glynne as the child

Critical reception

TV Guide called it an "Occasionally okay slapstick comedy."^[2]

Notes and References

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20090115154143/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/31010 BFI.org
2. Web site: Demobbed.