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There's no plot to speak of in In Town Tonight, and as far as the audience was concerned, none was necessary. British Lion Studios put together an eye-popping aggregation of top music-hall talent, whose names meant little to American viewers but meant everything to English film fans. Perhaps wisely, producer W. S. Smith merely records the stars "in one" before a proscenium curtain, allowing them to perform their specialties with a minimum of cinematic muss-and-fuss. One can be fairly certain that audiences clamored for more as the film's 78 minutes drew to a close. In Town Tonight probably wouldn't have earned an American showing at all had not British films become all the rage in the early days of television.