Rent Sparrows Can't Sing (1963)
3.4 of 5 from 76 ratings
1h 28min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
There's panic in Stepney; from the stalls in the street to the bar of the Red Lion the word goes out: tearaway Charlie Gooding is back from two years at sea, and on the way home to his old stamping grounds. The trouble is that Charlie isn't up to date with the news. He doesn't know, for instance, that his wife Maggie has set up house with Bert, a local bus driver, in one of the new skyscraper blocks. He doesn't even know that the street where he lived has been pulled to the ground since he left, and all that is left of his house is a pile of rubble in a sea of modern flats. Charlie soon sets his local manor on its ear; from the sunny homecoming when he strides down the gangplank at the London Docks to the final rough-and-tumble in the local at closing time, we follow Charlie's progress in search of Maggie. When he catches up with his errant wife he is determined to win her back, and return to their old routine of battling, endlessly - but lovingly. - Actors:
- James Booth, Barbara Windsor, Roy Kinnear, Avis Bunnage, Brian Murphy, George Sewell, Barbara Ferris, Griffith Davies, Murray Melvin, Arthur Mullard, Peggy Ann Clifford, Wally Patch, Bob Grant, Stephen Lewis, Victor Spinetti, Jenny Sontag, May Scagnelli, Fanny Carby, Yootha Joyce, Janet Howse
- Directors:
- Joan Littlewood
- Producers:
- Donald Taylor
- Writers:
- Stephen Lewis, Joan Littlewood
- Studio:
- Optimum
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy
- Collections:
- Cinema Paradiso's 2023 Centenary Club: Part 1, Cinema Paradiso's 2024 Centenary Club: Part 2, inema Paradiso's 2023 Centenary Club: Part 2
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 12/10/2015
- Run Time:
- 92 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.66:1
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Interview with Peter Rankin (Joan Littlewood Biographer)
- Locations Featurette with Richard Dacre (Film Historian)
- Stills Gallery
- Interview with Murray Melvin
- BFI Q&A with Barbara Windsor and Murray Melvin
- Trailer
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