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- Type
- Film
- Year
- 1963
- Release date
- Mar 26, 1963
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
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Title: Sparrows Can't Sing
Year: 1963
Release Date (GB): 03/26/1963
Genres: Comedy and Drama
Runtime: 1h 34m
Rating: PG
Director: Joan Littlewood
Writer: Stephen Lewis (based on his 1960 play Sparrers Can't Sing, first performed at Littlewood's Theatre Workshop in the Theatre Royal Stratford East)
Cast: James Booth, Barbara Windsor, Roy Kinnear, Avis Bunnage, Brian Murphy
Producer: Donald Taylor
Synopsis/Plot: Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up with married bus driver Bert and a toddler. Charlie leaves a trail of mayhem as he goes about sorting things out.
Other: Produced in Great Britain.
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Sparrows Can't Sing is a feature film with a runtime of 110 minutes. It was released in 1963.
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