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{{Infobox film
| name = This'll Make You Whistle
| image = "This'll_Make_You_Whistle"_(1936).jpg
| image_size =
| caption =
| director = [[Herbert Wilcox]]
| producer = Herbert Wilcox
| writer = [[Guy Bolton]] <br> [[Fred Thompson (writer)|Fred Thompson]] (as Frederick A. Thompson)
| starring = [[Jack Buchanan]]
| music = George Windeatt
| cinematography = [[Freddie Young]]
| editing = [[Frederick Wilson (film editor)|Frederick Wilson]]
| studio = [[Herbert Wilcox Productions]]
| distributor = [[General Film Distributors]] (UK)
| released = 1 November 1936 (UK)
| runtime = 79 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
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'''''This'll Make You Whistle''''' is a 1936 British [[musical film|musical]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Herbert Wilcox]] and starring [[Jack Buchanan]], [[Elsie Randolph]] and [[William Kendall (actor)|William Kendall]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/54068|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114015356/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/54068|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-01-14|title=This'll Make You Whistle (1936) - BFI|work=BFI}}</ref> The film was based on the [[This'll Make You Whistle (musical)|stage musical of the same title]] which Buchanan had starred in.

==Synopsis==
A man-about-town accidentally finds himself engaged to two women at the same time, the horse-mad Laura and the sweet-natured Joan who is dominated by her disapproving mother. His attempts to convince the guardian of the former that he is completely unsuited to marriage, while trying to persuade the mother of the latter that he is, are further complicated by the behaviour of his two friends and the appearance of an attractive [[model (art)|life model]] named Bobbie Rivers. Further confusion ensues when the action shifts from London to the French resort of [[Le Touquet]].

==Cast==
* [[Jack Buchanan]] as Bill Hoppings
* [[Elsie Randolph]] as Bobbie Rivers
* [[Jean Gillie]] as Joan Longhurst
* [[William Kendall (actor)|William Kendall]] as Reggie Benson
* [[David Hutcheson]] as Archie Codrington
* Maidie Hope as Mrs. Longhurst
* [[Anthony Holles (actor)|Anthony Holles]] as Sebastian Venables
* Marjorie Brooks as Laura Buxton
* Bunty Payne as Betty
* [[Miki Hood]] as Clarice
* Scott Harrold as Gendarme
* Irene Vere as Mrs. Crimp
* [[Frederick Burtwell]] as Hotel Manager

==Stage production==
The musical was first performed on stage at Southsea in December 1935, before a long run at the [[Palace Theatre, London|Palace Theatre]] and then [[Daly's Theatre|Daly's]] in London's West End. The cast included Jack Buchanan as Bill Hoppings, [[Jean Gillie]] as Joan Longhurst, Sylvia Leslie as Laura Buxton, Maidie Hope as Mrs Longhurst, [[Elsie Randolph]] as Bobbie Rivers, Diana Lonsdale as Betty, Irene Vere as Mrs Crimp, Jill Ricarde as Clarice, and [[Eunice Crowther]] as Dora.<ref>J. P. Wearing, ''The London Stage 1930-1939: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel'', p. 545</ref>

In Australia, the show was known as ''The Melody of London''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article25135056 |title=HERBERT WILCOX'S PROGRAMME. |newspaper=[[The West Australian]] |volume=52 |issue=15,542 |location=Western Australia |date=17 April 1936 |accessdate=17 August 2017 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

==Critical reception==
''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote, "It isn't enough that Mars is attacking; England has just exploded a hot-air bomb in the immediate vicinity of the Fifty-fifth Street Playhouse. "This'll Make You Whistle" was the tag on it. We're whistling all right—one of those barely audible sounds made by pursing the lips and exhaling. Herbert Wilcox, who should have known better, launched the projectile, first charging it with people like Jack Buchanan, Elsie Randolph and Antony Holles and detonating it with a slow-burning musical comedy plot about a man with one fiancée too many. Typical line: "You're the bigamist fool in London." Typical scene: Mr. Buchanan and a pal, disguised as bearded gendarmes, being chased by twenty bearded gendarmes. Typical reaction; Ouch!"<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9903EEDA163BEE3ABC4953DFB7678383629EDE|title = Movie Reviews|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 3 March 2022}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0028363}}

{{Herbert Wilcox}}

[[Category:1936 films]]
[[Category:British musical comedy films]]
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[[Category:1930s English-language films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Herbert Wilcox]]
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[[Category:Films set in France]]
[[Category:British black-and-white films]]
[[Category:Films shot at British International Pictures Studios]]
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