Calling the Tune

Calling the Tune is a 1936 British musical drama film directed by Reginald Denham and Thorold Dickinson and starring Adele Dixon, Sally Gray and Sam Livesey. The screenplay was by Basil Mason based on the 1913 play of the same title by Irish MP and novelist Justin [Huntly McCarthy].

Plot

Cast

Adele Dixon as Julia Harbord
Sally Gray as Margaret Gordon
Sam Livesey as Bob Gordon
Eliot Makeham as Stephen Harbord
Donald Wolfit as Dick Finlay
Clifford Evans as Peter Mallory
Lewis Casson as John Mallory
Ronald [Simpson |Ronald Simpson] as Bramwell
H. F. Maltby as Stubbins
Robb Wilton as Jenkins
Reginald Forsyth as himself
Charles Penrose as himself
George Robey as himself
Students of the R.A.D.A. as themselves
Sir Henry Wood as himself
Pat Fitzpatrick as boy
Cedric Hardwicke as himself
Production

The film was made at Ealing Studios with sets designed by the art director R. Holmes Paul.

Reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The attempt to mix melodrama and inside views of a gramophone factory fails, and neither aspect is adequately treated. The fictional story spreads over the long period from the infancy of the gramophone to the present day and suggests that this period has been one of trickery, theft and the exploitation of the technical by the commercial man. Production and acting are unpretentious and adequate."