The Lambeth Walk (film)

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Excellent film version of the Victoria Palace stage success, Me and My Girl.  ... While following closely the original play, its original cockney verve is enhanced by brisk direction and delightful musical settings. Lupino Lane as the little Cockney, Bill, who inherits a title and humanises his aristocratic relatives, repeats his personal success and reveals a talent for the comedy-pathos of the 'little man' reminiscent of Chaplin. Sally Gray also shows more than average talent as his sweetheart."^[4]

Kine Weekly wrote: "The fault with the picture is not in the team-work or in the technical presentation; it is that most of the gags, all of which get their laughs the easy way by allowing the cockney to score off the aristocracy are not only hackneyed but overplayed. The film would have been twice as funny had it been half as long."^[7]

The Daily Film Renter wrote: "From a purely technical viewpoint, the film is an unambitious offering, produced at no great cost, and relying upon elementals for success, even custard pies coming into their own. A good many of the jokes are obvious, the humour is often physical, and the ultimate outcome is easily foreseen. Nevertheless, it progresses to the tune of hearty laughs, possibly because it deals with the perennially popular theme of an underdog suddenly skyrocketed to the nobility."^[5]

Variety wrote: "Lambeth has its points, and Lane stabs out every now and then for a laugh, but not frequently enough to save it. Two young dolls, who trim off nice hunks of the screenplay, are Sally Gray, the cockney girl Lane refuses to leave behind, and Enid StampTaylor, who displays herself dramatically and physically to good advantage. Norah Howard, the duchess, looks it, and Seymour Hicks is the picture of tea-sipping nobility."^[6]

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