Reluctant_Heroes

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Reluctant Heroes

1952 film

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Reluctant Heroes is a 1952 British comedy film directed by Jack Raymond and starring Ronald Shiner, Derek Farr and Christine Norden. It is based on the popular farce of the same title by Colin Morris.[1][2] The play, which had its West End premiere at the Whitehall Theatre in September 1950, was the first of the Brian Rix company's Whitehall farces.[3] The film was shot at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith in West London. It's sets were designed by the art director Wilfred Arnold.

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Plot summary

This comedy is set in an army boot camp. It displays a drill sergeant who must somehow turn an inept group of recruits into real soldiers.

Cast

Reception

Box office

The film is listed in the 12 most popular films at the British box-office in 1952, in an article in the Sydney Sunday Herald that cited Ronald Shiner as the UK's favourite film star of the year.[4][5]

Brian Rix asserts in his autobiography that it was the UK's top box office film of the year.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    "Reluctant Heroes (1951) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast". AllMovie. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
  2. [2]
    "Reluctant Heroes (1952)". BFI. Archived from the original on 19 May 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  3. [3]
    Ray Cooney Obituary: John Chapman, The Guardian, 8 September 2001
  4. [4]
    "COMEDIAN TOPS FILM POLL". The Sunday Herald. Sydney, NSW: National Library of Australia. 28 December 1952. p. 4. Retrieved 24 April 2012..
  5. [5]
    Thumim, Janet. "The popular cash and culture in the postwar British cinema industry". Screen. Vol. 32, no. 3. p. 259.
  6. [6]
    Rix, B. (1975) My Farce From My Elbow, Secker & Warburg, London.


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