London Town (1946 film)

London Town
Sid Field and Petula Clark
Directed byWesley Ruggles
Written byVal Guest
Sig Herzig
Elliot Paul
Produced byWesley Ruggles
StarringSid Field
Petula Clark
Greta Gynt
Kay Kendall
Sonnie Hale
Tessie O'Shea
CinematographyErwin Hillier
Edited bySidney Stone
Music byJimmy Van Heusen (lyrics by Johnny Burke)
Distributed byEagle-Lion Distributors Limited
Release date
  • 30 September 1946 (1946-09-30) (UK release)
Running time
126 min
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£1 million[1] or $2 million[2]

London Town is a 1946 Technicolor musical film directed by Wesley Ruggles and starring Sid Field and Petula Clark, generally regarded as one of the biggest flops in the history of British cinema.[3]

  1. ^ "Kinematograph Year Book 1949". Kinematograph Publications, Ltd. 1 November 2017 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ "Rank's 27 Pix Represent A $22,000,000 Outlay". Variety. 24 April 1946. p. 19.
  3. ^ "London Town (1946) – Wesley Ruggles – Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related". AllMovie.