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Leonard Sharp
- Claude
- (as Leonard Sharpe)
Franklyn Bennett
- Hilary Craven
- (as Franklin Bennett)
Sheila Bligh
- Undetermined role
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Raymond Glendenning
- Self - Announcer
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Vincent Holman
- Opposition Leader
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Jean Kent
- Kitty Kent
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Peter Noble
- Head boy of acting school
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
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- QuizThis film received its USA premiere when it was telecast in New York City Thursday 13 September 1951 on WCBS (Channel 2).
- Curiosità sui creditiFollowing the credit for Jack Train in the opening credits, the remainder of the cast are preceded by 'and the Itma Company playing their radio characters'.
- ConnessioniFeatured in La fine del mondo (2013)
- Colonne sonoreHill-Billy Song
Music by Clive Richardson
Lyrics by Ted Kavanagh and Max Kester (uncredited)
Performed by Tommy Handley (uncredited)
Recensione in evidenza
"It's That Man Again" is a very wacky, frenetic British comedy. This is a rare movie - one of only two feature films in which Tommy Handley stars. He is joined by a number of other players from his hit radio show, "ITMA," that was broadcast over the BBC from 1939 to 1949. It ended with Handley's death that year. "ITMA" has been credited with helping keep up the morale in England during World War II.
The radio show got its title from the acronym of the phrase, "It's that man again." The origin of that expression in England is quite funny. It had something to do with a certain crazy dictator who had been stirring things up in Europe in the 1930s. When the newspapers and the BBC news would have the latest on the goings-on in Germany, Brits would be heard saying, "It's that man again." But, in its article on Tommy Handley, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says that the phrase was first used in America. Whenever Pres. Franklin Roosevelt came up with another New Deal project, Republicans were known to utter the phrase.
Handley began as a baritone singer and segued to comedy on stage and radio. In 1939, he developed the radio program, "ITMA." It lampooned people, places and things of the day that were reported in the news. There invariably was something about Herr Hitler. The names of characters, places and institutions were often plays on words or other funny concoctions.
Watching this film, one can't help it if an American comedy act of the same period comes to mind. Only Handley's character is the three top Marx Brothers rolled into one. His witty dialog and facial expressions, his funny ripostes with other characters and his frantic antics capture the personas of Groucho, Chico and Harpo Marx.
This film also gives a hint of a type of comedy that would be popular in England three decades later. Non-stop, often unconnected or disconnected skits, running gags, and other comedy would become the trademark of Monty Python's Flying Circus in 1969.
This film may not be to everyone's liking. Film buffs who must have a well-defined plot with a clear beginning and ending may be dismayed. Movie goers who look for the message or morale of a film may be disappointed. Those who insist on the sound elements of masterful movie-making will clearly be at a loss. But those who just like good comedy, madcap included, should enjoy this film. Besides the humor, it's a little bit of history as well.
All of the cast - again, many from the radio show, give fine performances. Indeed, for people of the war years on the home front, the film afforded an opportunity to put faces with the voices of those they heard regularly on the radio.
The Mayor of 'Foaming at the Mouth," England, had his day in English history. And the names of other ITMA characters are etched in the annals of British broadcasting - Sam Scram, Alley-Oop, Mrs. Mopp, Soso, Colonel Chinstrap and others.
The radio show got its title from the acronym of the phrase, "It's that man again." The origin of that expression in England is quite funny. It had something to do with a certain crazy dictator who had been stirring things up in Europe in the 1930s. When the newspapers and the BBC news would have the latest on the goings-on in Germany, Brits would be heard saying, "It's that man again." But, in its article on Tommy Handley, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says that the phrase was first used in America. Whenever Pres. Franklin Roosevelt came up with another New Deal project, Republicans were known to utter the phrase.
Handley began as a baritone singer and segued to comedy on stage and radio. In 1939, he developed the radio program, "ITMA." It lampooned people, places and things of the day that were reported in the news. There invariably was something about Herr Hitler. The names of characters, places and institutions were often plays on words or other funny concoctions.
Watching this film, one can't help it if an American comedy act of the same period comes to mind. Only Handley's character is the three top Marx Brothers rolled into one. His witty dialog and facial expressions, his funny ripostes with other characters and his frantic antics capture the personas of Groucho, Chico and Harpo Marx.
This film also gives a hint of a type of comedy that would be popular in England three decades later. Non-stop, often unconnected or disconnected skits, running gags, and other comedy would become the trademark of Monty Python's Flying Circus in 1969.
This film may not be to everyone's liking. Film buffs who must have a well-defined plot with a clear beginning and ending may be dismayed. Movie goers who look for the message or morale of a film may be disappointed. Those who insist on the sound elements of masterful movie-making will clearly be at a loss. But those who just like good comedy, madcap included, should enjoy this film. Besides the humor, it's a little bit of history as well.
All of the cast - again, many from the radio show, give fine performances. Indeed, for people of the war years on the home front, the film afforded an opportunity to put faces with the voices of those they heard regularly on the radio.
The Mayor of 'Foaming at the Mouth," England, had his day in English history. And the names of other ITMA characters are etched in the annals of British broadcasting - Sam Scram, Alley-Oop, Mrs. Mopp, Soso, Colonel Chinstrap and others.
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By what name was It's That Man Again (1943) officially released in Canada in English?
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