Song of the Forge

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}} {{Use British English|date=May 2016}} {{Infobox film | name = Song of the Forge | image = | caption = | director = Henry Edwards | producer = {{ubl|Norman Hope-Bell|Wilfred Noy}} | writer = {{ubl|J.D. Lewin|H. Fowler Mear}} | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|Stanley Holloway|Lawrence Grossmith|Davy Burnaby}} | music = Horace Sheldon | cinematography = Desmond Dickinson | editing = Challis Sanderson | studio = Butcher's Film Service | distributor = Butcher's Film Service | released = {{Film date|1937|05|01|df=yes}} | runtime = 82 minutes | country = United Kingdom | language = English | budget = | gross = }} '''''Song of the Forge''''' is a 1937 British musical film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Stanley Holloway, Lawrence Grossmith and Eleanor Fayre.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090114073711/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/51491 BFI.org]</ref> The screenplay concerns an elderly blacksmith who refuses assistance from his wealthy son in spite of his own poverty.

It was made at Cricklewood Studios by Butcher's Film Service.<ref>Wood p.97</ref>

==Cast== * Stanley Holloway as Joe / Sir William Barrett * Lawrence Grossmith as Den Dalton * Eleanor Fayre as Sylvia Brent * Davy Burnaby as Auctioneer * C. Denier Warren as Farmer George * Arthur Chesney as Huckleberry * Aubrey Fitzgerald as Oldest Inhabitant * Hal Walters as Sam Tucker * Charles Hayes as Mayor * Ian Wilson as Albert Meek * Hay Plumb as Assistant * Bruce Gordon as Ted Salter

==References== <references/>

==Bibliography== * Low, Rachael. ''Filmmaking in 1930s Britain''. George Allen & Unwin, 1985. * Wood, Linda. ''British Films, 1927-1939''. British Film Institute, 1986.

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0149002}}

Category:1937 English-language films Category:1937 British films Category:1937 films Category:1937 musical films Category:British black-and-white films Category:British musical films Category:Films directed by Henry Edwards Category:Films shot at Cricklewood Studios Category:Films set in England Category:English-language musical films