Francis L. Sullivan and Frances Day as Nero & Poppæa - 1944

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a British equivalent of the Abbott and Costello films of the Forties. A strange place in which to find Harry Watt, perhaps, but he had endeavoured to move away from the sincere war films for which he was known. His associate producer Robert Hamer shot many scenes and, although it was not well-regarded at the studio, its box-office performance was satisfactory, and it was even reissued in 1949 in a double bill with Kind Hearts and Coronets. Extract© George Perry: Forever Ealing. ... "Fiddlers ...