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Artist: Kano
Album: London Town
Release Date: 5 Sep 2007

''London Town'' is a 1946 in film|1946 musical film|musical film, was an infamous flop in the history of United Kingdom|British film|cinema.

The screenplay by Sig Herzig, Val Guest, and Elliot Paul (based on a story by director Wesley Ruggles) revolves around comedian Jerry Sanford (Sid Field), who arrives in London believing he has been hired as the star of a major stage production, when in fact he's merely an understudy. Thanks to his daughter Peggy (Petula Clark, already a screen veteran at age fourteen), who sabotages the revue's star, he finally gets his big break. The premise allows for a variety of musical numbers and comedy sketches performed by, among others, Kay Kendall and Tessie O'Shea.

The critical and financial failure of the extravagant film, Britain's first major Technicolor musical, is part of British film legend. Financed by the Rank Organisation at a time of rationing and shortages of materials in the period immediately after World War II, it was filmed in the shell of "Sound City Shepperton," which had been made available as a film studio after being requisitioned during the war as a factory for aircraft parts. (The studio was later renamed Shepperton Studios and is still used for film production.)

Musical hall performer Field had cheered up wartime London audiences with his hugely successful stage variety shows, including ''Stri

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