Young Man's Fancy (film)
| Young Man's Fancy | |
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| Directed by | Robert Stevenson |
| Produced by | S.C. Balcon |
| Written by |
Rodney Ackland E.V.H. Emmett Roland Pertwee Robert Stevenson |
| Starring |
Anna Lee Griffith Jones Seymour Hicks Martita Hunt |
| Music by | Ernest Irving |
| Cinematography | Ronald Neame |
| Edited by |
Ralph Kemplen Charles Saunders |
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Production
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| Distributed by | Associated British |
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Release date
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August 1939 |
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Running time
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77 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Young Man's Fancy is a 1939 British comedy film directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Anna Lee, Griffith Jones, and Seymour Hicks. An aristocratic Englishman is unhappily engaged to a brewery heiress but meets Ada, an Irish human cannonball, during a visit to a music hall and falls in love with her. Together they are trapped in Paris during the Siege of Paris.
It was written by Roland Pertwee and Stevenson, with additional dialogue by Rodney Ackland and E.V.H. Emmett. The character of Ada, written especially for Anna Lee by Stevenson, her husband, is "based on Zazel, the original 'human cannon ball', who thrilled London audiences in the [eighteen] nineties by being shot from a cannon" — however, "for the purposes of the film … the period [of the screenplay] has been put back to the seventies.
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