Keep Fit | |
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Directed by | Anthony Kimmins |
Written by | Anthony Kimmins Austin Melford |
Produced by | Basil Dean Jack Kitchin |
Starring | George Formby Kay Walsh Guy Middleton Evelyn Roberts |
Cinematography | John W. Boyle Gordon Dines Ronald Neame |
Edited by | Ernest Aldridge |
Music by | Ernest Irving |
Production company | |
Distributed by | ABFD |
Release date | 1937 |
Running time | 82 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Keep Fit is a 1937 British comedy film directed by Anthony Kimmins and starring George Formby, Kay Walsh and Guy Middleton. Formby was at his British top box-office peak when this comedy was made.[1]
George Formby again plays his working class underdog, gormless, gullible, indefatigable and triumphant hero. A weakling, Formby's character overcomes obstacles to beat a corrupt rival in the boxing ring. He plays a scrawny barber's assistant who, in response to the keep fit fad sweeping through Britain at the time, dreams of a better physique, and sings of it in the catchy "Biceps, Muscle and Brawn". He falls in love with a beautiful manicurist, and competes for her affections with a muscle bound thug. The manicurist is more attracted to the brute until the barber can prove that he is a crook, and defeat him in the boxing ring.[2][3]
According to Sky Movies "it's a bouncy, confidently made comedy that's fun throughout and pretty hilarious in its boxing-ring conclusion".[4]