Cheer Boys Cheer
Date: 1939
Director: Walter Forde
Production Company: Associated Talking Pictures (ATP)
Stars: Nova Pilbeam, Edmund Gwenn, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott, Jimmy O'Dea, C.V. France, Peter Coke, Alexander Knox
Location(s): Buckinghamshire, London
Region(s): London C-D, South East A-D
Storyline:
Increasing production at the expense of quality, a huge modern brewery owner seeking expansion threatens a much smaller traditional brewery until the owners’ offspring fall in love with each other.
Additional Information:
Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson
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The quiet village where the Greenleaf Brewery has been brewing tasty beer for 150 years. Village Road in Denham, Buckinghamshire which is seen in many productions including ‘The Square Peg’, ‘Poet’s Pub’, ‘The Games’, ‘Jumping for Joy’, ‘The Chiltern Hundreds’, ‘Kadoyng’, ‘Dark Places’ and ‘Murder at the Gallop’.
Antony Blair visited the quiet village but found no brewery.
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Driving recklessly, Margaret Greenleaf arrives at the rural brewery owned by her father Tom.
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Margaret heads to The Cross Keys pub where she collides with John Ironside’s Bentley in the car park.
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Having infiltrated Greenleaf’s business, John Ironside instigates an advertising campaign. The easily identified Chiswick Park station on Bollo Lane W4. The booking hall of the station features in ‘Villain’.
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In this composite shot, the sign above the billboard reads Rickmansworth and the poster in the centre advertises films at the Odeon, Rickmansworth.
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A car drives past a display beneath what looks like a single track railway bridge.
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This looks to be a matte addition to the suburban scene.
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Malet Street in Bloomsbury WC2 with Senate House in the right background. The site of the billboards is now occupied by Birkbeck College and Senate House can be recognised from ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’, 'Last Night in Soho', ‘Dunkirk’, ‘Its Not Cricket’ and ‘Their Finest’.
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Another bridge, another billboard.
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Leaving the brewery, Margaret drives John Ironside along country lanes at breakneck speed.
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John grips the dashboard as a car pulls out ahead.
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After swerving left to avoid a collision, Margaret turns the wheel to bring the car back onto the main road.
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Approaching the brow of a bridge, John covers his eyes as Margaret starts to overtake a lorry.
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Margaret veers back behind the lorry when a car approaches from the opposite direction.
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Overtaking as a van speeds past, Margaret presses her foot down on the accelerator.
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With the speedometer edging over 90 mph, Margaret races from view before crashing the car.
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After Greenleaf’s secret recipe for a beer creating ‘sorrows and tears’ is blended with Ironside’s bland brew, delivery lorries distribute the contaminated ale. The roof line gives away that this is inside Ealing Studios on Ealing Green in W5.
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Another batch of sullied beer leaves the brewery. Ealing Studios with the sound stages 3A and 3B on the left.