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	'''''I Thank You''''' is a 1941 [[black and white]] [[United Kingdom\|British]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Marcel Varnel]] and starring [[Arthur Askey]], [[Richard Murdoch]], [[Graham Moffatt]] and [[Moore Marriott]].~~<ref>http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/555642/I-Thank-You/original-print-info.html {{Bare URL inline\|date=August 2022}}</ref>~~ It was produced by [[Edward Black (producer)\|Edward Black]] at [[Gainsborough Pictures]].<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033739/ \|title=I Thank You (1941) \|publisher=IMDb \|access-date=14 February 2014}}</ref>		'''''I Thank You''''' is a 1941 [[black and white]] [[United Kingdom\|British]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Marcel Varnel]] and starring [[Arthur Askey]], [[Richard Murdoch]], [[Graham Moffatt]] and [[Moore Marriott]]. It was produced by [[Edward Black (producer)\|Edward Black]] at [[Gainsborough Pictures]].<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033739/ \|title=I Thank You (1941) \|publisher=IMDb \|access-date=14 February 2014}}</ref>

	== Plot summary ==		== Plot summary ==

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{{Use British English|date=May 2016}}
{{Infobox film
| name = I Thank You
| image = "I_Thank_You"_(1941).jpg
| image_size =
| caption = Opening title card
| director = [[Marcel Varnel]]
| producer = [[Edward Black (producer)|Edward Black]]
| screenplay = {{ubl|[[Marriott Edgar]]|[[Val Guest]]}}
| based_on = an original story by Howard Irving Young
| narrator =
| starring = See below
| music = [[Noel Gay]]
| cinematography = [[Arthur Crabtree]]
| editing = [[R. E. Dearing]]
| studio = [[Gainsborough Pictures]]
| distributor = [[General Film Distributors]] (UK)
| released = 20 October 1941 (UK)
| runtime = 83 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
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'''''I Thank You''''' is a 1941 [[black and white]] [[United Kingdom|British]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Marcel Varnel]] and starring [[Arthur Askey]], [[Richard Murdoch]], [[Graham Moffatt]] and [[Moore Marriott]].<ref>http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/555642/I-Thank-You/original-print-info.html {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2022}}</ref> It was produced by [[Edward Black (producer)|Edward Black]] at [[Gainsborough Pictures]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033739/ |title=I Thank You (1941) |publisher=IMDb |access-date=14 February 2014}}</ref>

== Plot summary ==
The film is set in [[London]] during the [[Second World War]] at the time of the [[The Blitz|Blitz]]. The leads are a couple of out of work variety entertainers who use great ingenuity in their efforts to get financial assistance to "put on a show". Hoping to put their proposal to the formidable Lady Randall, ex-music hall star [[Lily Morris]], they infiltrate her house in the guise of a servant (Murdoch) and cook (Askey - in drag). After some farcical interludes, they achieve their aim after Lady Randall is persuaded to sing an old [[music hall]] standard "[[Waiting at the Church]]" at an impromptu show located underground at [[Aldwych tube station]], - used during wartime as an underground bomb shelter. As the ex-music hall star, Lily Morris plays herself. The title of the film is a gentrified version of Arthur Askey's famous catch-phrase - "I thangyew". Also in the film is elderly comic actor [[Moore Marriott]], who plays Lady Randall's eccentric father, and [[Graham Moffatt]] as Albert who also appears under that name in the comedy films of both [[Will Hay]] and Arthur Askey.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.britmovie.co.uk/films/I-Thank-You_1941 |title=I Thank You_1941 {{!}} Britmovie {{!}} Home of British Films |website=www.britmovie.co.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110316064810/http://www.britmovie.co.uk/films/I-Thank-You_1941 |archive-date=2011-03-16}}</ref>

== Cast ==
*[[Arthur Askey]] as Arthur
*[[Richard Murdoch]] as Stinker
*[[Lily Morris]] as Lady Randall
*[[Moore Marriott]] as Pop Bennett
*[[Graham Moffatt]] as Albert Brown
*[[Peter Gawthorne]] as Dr. Pope
*[[Kathleen Harrison]] as Cook
*[[Felix Aylmer]] as Henry Potter
* Eleanor Farrell as Herself
* Charlie Forsythe as Himself
* Addie Seamon as Herself
*[[Issy Bonn]] as Himself
*[[Cameron Hall (actor)|Cameron Hall]] as Lomas
*[[Wally Patch]] as Bill
*Roberta Huby as Bobbie
*Noel Dainton as Police Sergeant
*[[Phyllis Morris (actress)|Phyllis Morris]] as Miss Pizer

== Soundtrack ==
*Arthur Askey - "Hello to the Sun" (Written by [[Noel Gay]] and [[Frank Eyton]])
*Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch - "Half of Everything Is Yours" (Written by Noel Gay and Frank Eyton)
*Eleanor Farrell - "Oh Johnny, Teach Me to Dance" (Written by Noel Gay and Frank Eyton)
*Charlie Forsythe - "Let's Get Hold of Hitler" (Written by Noel Gay and Frank Eyton)
*Lily Morris - "[[Waiting at the Church]]" (Written by [[Fred W. Leigh]] and [[Henry E. Pether]])

==Critical reception==
The ''[[Radio Times]]'' gave the film two out of five stars, and wrote, "not even the hard-working Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch plus Will Hay old boys Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt can warm up this tepid "upstairs-downstairs" charade";<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/film/jv579/i-thank-you|title=I Thank You (1941)}}</ref> whereas ''[[Sky Movies]]'' rated the film three out of five stars, describing it as a "cheerful, long-unseen British wartime romp...It's all directed by that master of comic organisation, Frenchman Marcel (''[[Oh, Mr Porter!]]'') Varnel. It's not one of his best, and some of it looks pretty dated now, but some scenes still raise a hearty chuckle."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sky.com/tv/movie/i-thank-you-1941 |title=I Thank You |website=www.sky.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160918085904/http://www.sky.com/tv/movie/i-thank-you-1941 |archive-date=2016-09-18}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
*{{IMDb title|id=0033739|title=I Thank You}}

{{Gainsborough Pictures}}
{{Marcel Varnel}}
{{Marriott Edgar}}

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[[Category:1941 films]]
[[Category:British comedy films]]
[[Category:British World War II propaganda films]]
[[Category:1940s English-language films]]
[[Category:British black-and-white films]]
[[Category:1941 comedy films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Marcel Varnel]]
[[Category:Battle of Britain films]]
[[Category:Gainsborough Pictures films]]
[[Category:Films with screenplays by Marriott Edgar]]

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