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{{Infobox film
| name = Time Flies
| image = Time_Flies_(1944_film).jpg
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| caption = Opening title
| director = [[Walter Forde]]
| producer = [[Edward Black (producer)|Edward Black]]
| screenplay = [[J.O.C. Orton]]<br> [[Ted Kavanagh]]<br>[[Howard Irving Young]]
| story =
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| starring = [[Tommy Handley]]<br> [[Evelyn Dall]]<br>[[George Moon]]
| music = [[Bretton Byrd]]
| cinematography = [[Basil Emmott]]
| editing = [[R. E. Dearing]]
| studio = [[Gainsborough Pictures]]
| distributor = [[General Film Distributors]] {{small|(UK)}}
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1944|05|08|UK}}
| country = United Kingdom
| runtime = 88 minutes
| language = English
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'''''Time Flies''''' is a 1944 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Walter Forde]] and starring [[Tommy Handley]], [[Evelyn Dall]], [[Felix Aylmer]] and [[Moore Marriott]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/54516|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113221100/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/54516|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-01-13|title=Time Flies (1944)}}</ref> The screenplay concerns two [[music hall]] performers, an inventor and a con-man who travel back to [[Elizabethan era|Elizabethan times]] using a [[Time travel|time machine]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/time-flies-v113858|title=Time Flies (1944) - Walter Forde - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie}}</ref>

==Plot==

A professor invents a time sphere which takes a group of 1940s entertainers to Elizabethan London, where they encounter Queen Elizabeth and [[Sir Walter Raleigh]] and introduce them to jazz culture.

They also meet Captain John Smith and a very heavy-drinking [[Pocahontas]]. The main female character meets [[William Shakespeare]] and feeds him some of his own lines, which he eagerly writes down.

A costume-production, (many of which are immaculate), which makes extensive use of the Gainsborough wardrobe.

==Cast==
* [[Tommy Handley]] – Tommy
* [[Evelyn Dall]] – Susie Barton
* [[George Moon]] – Bill Barton
* [[Felix Aylmer]] – The Professor
* [[Moore Marriott]] – A Soothsayer
* [[Graham Moffatt]] – His Nephew
* [[John Salew]] – [[William Shakespeare]]
* [[Leslie Bradley]] – Captain [[Walter Raleigh]]
* [[Olga Lindo]] – Queen [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth]]
* [[Roy Emerton]] – Captain John Smith
* Iris Lang – Princess [[Pocahontas]]
* [[Stéphane Grappelli]] – A [[Troubadour]]

==Critical reception==
''[[Sky Cinema]]'' gave the film two out of five stars, its review stating: "Despite the subject and the cast, the treatment lacks vivacity".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sky.com/tv/movie/time-flies-1944|title=Time Flies}}</ref> ''[[TV Guide]]'' rated it similarly: "A well-tuned script takes full advantages of the possibilities for comedy, but radio star Handley is a bit of a disappointment, looking sourly out of place on the screen";<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/movies/time-flies/review/120652/|title=Time Flies}}</ref> The ''[[Radio Times]]'' rated it three out of five stars, concluding: "Some of the jokes have travelled less well and it falls flat in places, but it's a thoroughly entertaining romp".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/film/kjpdt/time-flies|title=Time Flies - Film from RadioTimes}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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