Overview
Set on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in business as a patent medicine man selling hair tonic at the fair with his ex-army colleague Dan (Ronald Shiner). Following a fight with local hoods over pitch spaces, Jim falls for Jane (Hazel Court), the girl on a nearby candy floss stall. The two begin dating but Jim fails to mention he is already married.
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Setting
Set in Blackpool
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Music
Music by George Melachrino
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Val ValentineStory
- Katherine StruebyWriter
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- February 28, 1949
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
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Cast
Douglass MontgomeryJim Harding
Hazel CourtJane Thompson
Patricia BurkeDiana Harding
Garry MarshJerry Burns
Ronald ShinerDan Collins
Kenneth GriffithJohnny
Eliot MakehamPop Thompson
Frederick LeisterDr. Franklin
Richard BirdJennings
Michael MedwinCabby- Peggy Ann CliffordMillie
Peter JonesPete
Erik ChittySchofield
Sam KyddJoe
Andrew CruickshankInspector Baxter- Dennis HarkinBert
- Dora SeveningMrs. Franklin
- Mark StoneCritic
Bill FraserRailway Porter (uncredited)
Andreas MalandrinosCafé Owner (uncredited)
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