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...Geordie (Gilliat & Launder; George K. Arthur). "ARE YOU UNDERSIZED? LET ME MAKE A DIFFERENT MAN OF YOU!" Wee Geordie's heart gave a glorious thump as he read the ad in the Drumfechan Clarion. He was undersized indeed; so wee a bairn of ten years old was hardly to be seen in all the glen. At school he had to stand on a box to reach the blackboard, and when he went walking with bonny Jean, she was half a head taller than he. That very night, with the courage of desperation, the thrifty young Scotsman scraped his last...
Unfortunately, the screenplay by Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat, and Val Valentine is less successful than the actors. It does not matter very much that the plot, which centers loosely around the theft of a racehorse, is hopelessly confused. Many of the comic situations, however, are strained and too farcical to be genuinely funny, and the punch-lines of some of the jokes are left lying around so long that they finally drop out altogether. As a result, the film lacks much of the spontaneity of the Searle originals...
Folly To Be Wise (Launder-Gilliat; Fine Arts Films). Whatever will become of the British drawing-room comedy now that hardly anybody can afford a drawing room? Folly To Be Wise, though it sometimes laughs a little too hard at its own joke, makes an amusing suggestion: use the same cast of characters, but turn the plot into a quiz show...
Gilbert & Sullivan (London Films, Lopert) is a thoroughgoing stomp through the old Savoy. Though it is well known that one Gilbert & Sullivan opera is more than most companies can produce successfully, the British team of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat (State Secret) have undertaken to produce almost all of them-and all at once, in this two-hour film-and to tell the life stories of Gilbert & Sullivan at the same time...
Last week, sponsored by Sir Alexander Korda, who finances and distributes their product and gives them a cut in the profits, Launder & Gilliat were making the most of their independence. While Launder worked on a film called Beauty Queen (about "the kind of a girl who starts in the News of the World and ends up there, too"), Gilliat was mulling over a movie biography of Gilbert & Sullivan...