Charles Laughton works the streets of London around St. Martin's Lane as a busker entertaining the theatre crowds as they wait to attend their performances. He has a couple of mates he hangs around with as they work through their routines. His forte is a particularly unriveting recital of prose. Who on earth wants to listen to someone reciting poems that don't even rhyme? A foolish life choice. He encounters and incorporates pickpocket Vivien Leigh (Liberty) into his group and uses her as a dancer. These grown-up street urchins scrape through life on the earnings of their day-to-day busking. Leigh gets noticed and taken out of this set-up and the film deals with the parting of the ways between Laughton and Leigh. Can they be re-united on the big stage?
The film has an interesting setting but totally unrealistic characters and terrible accents. No-one seems to be able to keep a consistent accent. Posh or poor? Neither. How about both randomly mixed in! The dynamic of older ugly man and younger attractive female doesn't ring true either, especially with the romantic undercurrent. Rex Harrison (Harley) is thrown in as a love interest but actually just provides zero interest!
Buskers can be pretty intrusive and annoying, providing an unwanted racket and then cheekily asking for money. It's begging. We need to become more intolerant of rubbish entertainment and call it out instead of sitting infront of TV's endless stream of talent(less) shows that sets people's minds backwards. How many times have you seen an audience whoop and cheer when a talentless nobody shouts a note during a slow song instead of singing it. It's the difference between a singer (Dolly Parton) and a shouter "Whitney Houston". Houston absolutely murdered "I will always love you" and people want to emulate her style. Very disappointing. I've gone off-topic.
The film has an interesting setting but totally unrealistic characters and terrible accents. No-one seems to be able to keep a consistent accent. Posh or poor? Neither. How about both randomly mixed in! The dynamic of older ugly man and younger attractive female doesn't ring true either, especially with the romantic undercurrent. Rex Harrison (Harley) is thrown in as a love interest but actually just provides zero interest!
Buskers can be pretty intrusive and annoying, providing an unwanted racket and then cheekily asking for money. It's begging. We need to become more intolerant of rubbish entertainment and call it out instead of sitting infront of TV's endless stream of talent(less) shows that sets people's minds backwards. How many times have you seen an audience whoop and cheer when a talentless nobody shouts a note during a slow song instead of singing it. It's the difference between a singer (Dolly Parton) and a shouter "Whitney Houston". Houston absolutely murdered "I will always love you" and people want to emulate her style. Very disappointing. I've gone off-topic.