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Sparrows Can't Sing (1963)
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30 October 1964 (Finland)
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Sailor, sailor, home from the sea - where little stranger can there one be ?
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Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone...
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Nominated for BAFTA Film Award.
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A Comedy and a Nostalgia Trip
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | James Booth | ... | Charlie Gooding |
| Barbara Windsor | ... | Maggie Gooding |
| Roy Kinnear | ... | Fred Gooding |
| Avis Bunnage | ... | Bridgie Gooding |
| Brian Murphy | ... | Jack |
| George Sewell | ... | Bert |
| Barbara Ferris | ... | Nellie Gooding |
| Griffith Davies | ... | Chunky |
| Murray Melvin | ... | Georgie |
| Arthur Mullard | ... | Ted |
| Peggy Ann Clifford | ... | Ted's Wife |
| Wally Patch | ... | Watchman |
| Bob Grant | ... | Perce |
| Stephen Lewis | ... | Caretaker |
| Victor Spinetti | ... | Arnold |
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94 min
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I saw this film when it first came out; it got very bad reviews at the time and most of my friends hated it, but I loved it then and have been haunted by the theme song ever since. For a while it was impossible to find any references to it--in fact, this is the first database where I have found the title or any information about it, though I have checked a number of commercial sites trying to find it on video. I still remember it as a charming (somewhat sentimental) and very funny comedy of a type that the British film industry did very well at that time. More recently their best work is more in a surreal or caricatural mode (such as _Cold Comfort Farm_, which is brilliant in its own way), but _The Full Monty_ caught some of the charm of the kind of comedies of everyday life that I think _Sparrows Can't Sing_ was one of. Now I just wish I could see it again.