Canaries Sometimes Sing (1930)

Directed by

Tom Walls

Genre

romantic comedy

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 20m

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three couples trade clever banter and romantic misunderstandings. The story follows their flirtations and marital complications over a weekend.

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What happens

Canaries Sometimes Sing is a 1931 British romantic comedy film directed by Tom Walls. The film is a four-hander, starring Walls, Cathleen Nesbitt, Athole Stewart and Yvonne Arnaud. It is a screen version of the witty and sophisticated comedy of manners play of the same title by Frederick Lonsdale, which had been a big critical and popular success when premiered at London's Globe Theatre in 1929, with Stewart and Arnaud cast in the roles which they would recreate in the film. A surviving review of the film notes favourably: "Glittering, superficial, but very skilful...superbly played." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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