29 Acacia Avenue

29 Acacia Avenue
Directed by	Henry Cass
Produced by	Sydney Box
Written by	Denis and Mabel Constanduros (play); Muriel and Sydney Box (screenplay)
Starring	Gordon Harker; Betty Balfour; Jimmy Hanley; Hubert Gregg; Jill Evans; Henry Kendall; Dinah Sheridan; Megs Jenkins; Noele Gordon; Guy Middleton
Music by	Muir Mathieson (musical director)
Cinematography	Ernest Palmer ; Robert Huke
Edited by	Julian Wintle
Production; company	Columbia British Productions; Boca Productions
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures Corporation (United Kingdom); Oxford Films (United States)
Release date	May 1945 (UK); 30 October 1949 (US);
Running time	83 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	£30,000[1] or £45,000[2]

29 Acacia Avenue is a play by Denis and Mabel Constanduros.[3] Its 1945 British comedy-drama film adaptation, directed by Henry Cass,[4] was released in the U.S. as The Facts of Love.[5]

Premise

Peter Robinson falls in love with the naïve country girl Fay and the worldly, wealthy and already-married Joan, and lives with them both (and Joan's husband) at his parents' house. However, one day Peter's parents unexpectedly return from holiday, and all hell breaks loose.

Cast

Gordon Harker as Mr. Robinson
Betty Balfour as Mrs. Robinson
Jimmy Hanley as Peter Robinson
Carla Lehmann as Fay
Hubert Gregg as Michael
Jill Evans as Joan
Henry Kendall as Mr. Wilson
Dinah Sheridan as Pepper
Megs Jenkins as Shirley
Noele Gordon as Mrs. Wilson
Guy Middleton as Gerald
Aubrey Mallalieu as Martin

Critical reception

Allmovie wrote, "one of the few low-budget British programmers to enjoy a reasonably widespread American release...The film weaves three separate romantic subplots into an entertaining unified whole";[6] though Sky Movies called the film "one wartime West End success that didn't transfer too well to screen, ending up embarrassingly stagey";[7] but the Radio Times thought that although the film "fails to fully disguise its theatrical origins...it nevertheless makes for pleasant period entertainment, with particularly likeable performances from British veterans Gordon Harker and Betty Balfour as the parents."[8]

References

Geoffrey Macnab, J. Arthur Rank and the British Film Industry, London, Routledge (1993), p119
Andrew Spicer, The Lion That Lost Its Way and Other Cautionary Tales of the Show Business Jungle: the autobiography of Sydney Box
Constanduros, Mabel; Constanduros, Denis (1944). Acacia Avenue: A Comedy in Three Acts (French's acting ed.). London: French.
Drazin, Charles (1998). The Finest Years: British Cinema of the 1940s. London: Andre Deutsch. p. 206. ISBN 9780233989853.
"29, Acacia Avenue". BFI. Archived from the original on 12 July 2012.
"Facts of Love (1945) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast - AllMovie". AllMovie.
"29 Acacia Avenue". Find and Watch.
Tony Sloman. "29 Acacia Avenue". RadioTimes.

External links

29 Acacia Avenue at IMDb
29 Acacia Avenue at AllMovie

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[1] Geoffrey Macnab, J. Arthur Rank and the British Film Industry, London, Routledge (1993), p119

[2] Andrew Spicer, The Lion That Lost Its Way and Other Cautionary Tales of the Show Business Jungle: the autobiography of Sydney Box

[3] Constanduros, Mabel; Constanduros, Denis (1944). Acacia Avenue: A Comedy in Three Acts (French's acting ed.). London: French.

[4] Drazin, Charles (1998). The Finest Years: British Cinema of the 1940s. London: Andre Deutsch. p. 206. ISBN 9780233989853.

[5] "29, Acacia Avenue". BFI. Archived from the original on 12 July 2012.

[6] "Facts of Love (1945) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast - AllMovie". AllMovie.

[7] "29 Acacia Avenue". Find and Watch.

[8] Tony Sloman. "29 Acacia Avenue". RadioTimes.