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{{Short description|1965 British comedy war film by Frank Launder}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Joey Boy
| image = "Joey_Boy"_(1965_film).jpg
| caption =
| director = [[Frank Launder]]
| producer = [[Sidney Gilliat]]
| writer = Frank Launder<br>Mike Watts (adaptation and screenplay)
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| starring = [[Harry H. Corbett]]<br> [[Stanley Baxter]]<br> [[Bill Fraser]]<br> [[Percy Herbert (actor)|Percy Herbert]]<br> [[Lance Percival]]<br> [[Reg Varney]]
| music = [[Philip Green (composer)|Philip Green]]
| cinematography = [[Arthur Lavis]]
| editing = John Shirley
| studio = Temgrange
| distributor = [[British Lion Films]] (UK)
| released = {{Film date|1965}}
| runtime = 91 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
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'''''Joey Boy''''' is a 1965 British [[comedy film|comedy]] [[war film]] directed by [[Frank Launder]] and starring [[Harry H. Corbett]], [[Stanley Baxter]], [[Bill Fraser]], [[Percy Herbert (actor)|Percy Herbert]], [[Lance Percival]], [[Reg Varney]] and [[Thorley Walters]].<ref name="BFIsearch">{{
==Synopsis==
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* [[Basil Dignam]] as General
* [[Vicki Woolf]] as Gina
==Production==
British Lion had been owned by the Conservative government since December 1963. In 1964 the government had it denationalised. ''Joey Boy was a''mong the films released by British Lion in its first year of independence. By November 1965 it was seeking re-nationalisation.<ref>British Lion directors seek renationalisation Our own Reporter. The Guardian 19 Nov 1965: 24.</ref>
==Critical reception==
''[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' wrote: "This laboured farce makes a peculiarly dispiriting addition to the list of Launder-Gilliat productions. The script, an anthology of clichés of barrack-room and wide-boy humour, interspersed with juvenile horseplay and tired vulgarity, is bereft of wit and originality. Since Frank Launder's sluggish direction fails to remedy these deficiencies, the film is as visually shoddy as it is unfunny. In the circumstances, it is not too surprising that Harry H. Corbett's central performance should resolve itself into an unpleasingly complacent display of mugging, and the experienced supporting players make equally little of their unpromising material. The film does perhaps perk up slightly with the visit of the parliamentary delegation, but only by comparison with the tedium of what has gone before, and the final shot (Harry H. Corbett pulling a lavatory chain) is all too crudely apt."<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1 January 1965 |title=Joey Boy |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1305835813/38DC612FAD9A4338PQ/1 |journal=[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]] |volume=32 |issue=372 |pages=56 |via=ProQuest}}</ref>
''Britmovie'' wrote, "despite pretensions to follow in the same vein as the Boulting Brothers ''[[Private's Progress]]'' there’s a distinct lack of humour here, the combined talents of TV comics Harry H. Corbett, Reg Varney and Stanley Baxter are sadly wasted in this fitful film." <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britmovie.co.uk/films/Joey-Boy_1965|title=Joey Boy|work=britmovie.co.uk}}</ref>▼
''[[The Guardian]]'' called it a "hopelessly ramshackle vehicle" for Harry Corbett.<ref>A clash of symbols from Russia
The Guardian 10 May 1965: 4</ref>
▲''Britmovie'' wrote, "despite pretensions to follow in the same vein as the Boulting Brothers ''[[Private's Progress]]'' [1956] there’s a distinct lack of humour here, the combined talents of TV comics Harry H. Corbett, Reg Varney and Stanley Baxter are sadly wasted in this fitful film."
==References==
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[[Category:British World War II films]]
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[[Category:Films set in London]]
▲[[Category:Italian Campaign of World War II films]]
[[Category:1960s English-language films]]
[[Category:English-language war comedy films]]
[[Category:Films scored by Philip Green]]
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