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 (also known as My Heart Goes Crazy [3]) is a 1946 Technicolor musical film directed by Wesley Ruggles and starring Sid Field and Petula Clark.[3] The screenplay was by Sig Herzig, Val Guest and Elliot Paul, based on a story by Ruggles. According to Allmovie, the film was "one of the most notorious flops in the history of the British cinema."[4]

  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. ^ a b "London Town". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
  4. ^ "London Town (1946) – Wesley Ruggles – Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related". AllMovie. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017.