by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Cheer Boys Cheer is a provincial British comedy with slight Romeo and Juliet undertones. Edmund Gwenn and Moore Marriott play rival brewery owners who detest the sight of one another. Not so their children--the son of one man, the daughter of the other--who fall in love. One glance at the film's title, and the viewer knows that boy and girl will not take poison in the end. For so modest an endeavor, Cheer Boys Cheer has a remarkable talent lineup: Edmund Gwenn, Moore Marriott, Jimmy O'Dea, Nova Pilbeam and Alexander Knox in front of the cameras, and Walter Forde and Ronald Neame on the production end.
characteristics
- Self-Destructive Romance
- Merger
- Love
- Owner
- Rival
- Son
- Feud
- Star-crossed-lovers
- Father
- Company
- Commerce
- Business
- Corporation
- Daughter
- Enemy
