Feather Your Nest

Feather Your Nest
Directed byWilliam Beaudine
Written by
Based onStory by Ivar Campbell and Sheila Campbell
Produced byBasil Dean
Starring
Cinematography
Edited byErnest Aldridge
Music byErnest Irving
Production
company
Distributed byAssociated British Film Distributors
Release date
  • March 1937 (1937-03)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Feather Your Nest is a 1937 British musical comedy film directed by William Beaudine and starring George Formby, Polly Ward and Enid Stamp-Taylor.[1] It was written by Austin Melford and Val Valentine (and, uncredited, Robert Edmunds, Anthony Kimmins[1]) from a story by Ivar Campbell and Sheila Campbell.

The film contains Formby's signature tune, "Leaning on a Lamp-post".[2]

Plot

A worker at a gramophone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song, "Leaning on a Lamp-post".

Cast

Critical reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: George Formby has three good songs including the catchy 'Leaning on a Lamppost' (the record). He makes the most of every opportunity the film gives him, displays very slow wits with considerable charm ... The rest of the cast give him good support, though they are not up to his own standard."[3]

Kine Weekly wrote: "Bright, engaging comedy of middle-class life, turning briskly on the vacuous comicalities and inimitable versatility of George Formby. The slight but refreshing story paves the way to innumerable clever gags, and these in turn build up briskly to an exhilarating and eminently satisfactory happy ending. Supporting the star is a first-rate team, while the song numbers have melody and pointed lyrics."[4]

Halliwell's Film Guide observed "the star in less farcical vein than usual."[5]

TV Guide concluded, "not one of Formby's best films, but mildly enjoyable, nonetheless".[6]

References

  1. 1 2 "Feather Your Nest". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 5 July 2026.
  2. ↑ "FEATHER YOUR NEST (1937)". BFI Film & TV Database. 16 April 2009. Archived from the original on 22 October 2012. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  3. ↑ "Feather Your Nest". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 4 (37): 123. 1 January 1937. ProQuest 1305798335.
  4. ↑ "Feather Your Nest". Kine Weekly. 241 (1559): 33. 4 March 1937. ProQuest 2339748459.
  5. ↑ "Feather Your Nest". Georgeformby.co.uk. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  6. ↑ "Feather Your Nest Review". Movies.tvguide.com. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014.
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