The screen all over the world has seen a great deal of familiar New York life, "Winterset" and "Dead End" have recently given us realistic pictures of its gloomier side, Certainly New York in all its phases should be known by this time to cinema audiences everywhere, London has been relatively neglected, The majority of British film producers have turned their minds to historical periods and studio sets. Hitchcock alone has considered every day London worth while.
There is now promised a film which will show the world something of that part of London which is down by the docks. In "Charlie Brown's" at Limehouse there is an inn—or rather was an inn—known to sailor men from every part of the world. Charlie Brown was one of those characters who alone can make his house famous George King has decided to produce a picture on this subject and to make no concessions to studio convention, We shall be shown that London down by the river which Dickens gave us in "Our Mutual Friend" and has an atmosphere of gloom and jollity peculiarly English.
This film should give a fine chance for intelligent casting. The producer and director could easily use to great advantage a whole crowd of character actors who could either use the true London speech or suggest that exotic variety always crowding into the Port of London and making it, like all other great shipping centres, an epitome of the world races. But it would be London nevertheless, utterly distinct from New York, San Francisco or Marseilles.
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