Sparrows Can't Sing

5.3
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Run time: 94 min
  • Premiere: 1963. March 26.

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, and they all watch with more than a little interest at the trail of mayhem Charlie leaves as he goes about sorting things out.

Discover

James Booth

Charlie Gooding

Barbara Windsor

Maggie Gooding

Roy Kinnear

Fred Gooding

Avis Bunnage

Bridgie Gooding

Barbara Ferris

Nellie Gooding

Wally Patch

Watchman

Bob Grant

Perce

Stephen Lewis

Caretaker

Yootha Joyce

Barmaid

John Junkin

Bridge Operator

Harry H. Corbett

Greengrocer

Glynn Edwards

Charlie's Friend

Gerry Raffles

Lorry Driver

Rita Webb

Maggie's Neighbor

Paddy Joyce

Barman

Art

Bernard Sarron

Art Direction

Camera

Mutz Greenbaum

Director of Photography

Desmond Dickinson

Director of Photography

Peter Allwork

Camera Operator

Costume & Make-Up

Bill Lodge

Makeup Artist

Polly Young

Hairdresser

Directing

Barbara Rowland

Continuity

Peter Medak

Assistant Director

Estelle Stewart

Continuity

Editing

Production

Donald Taylor

Producer

Clifford Parkes

Production Manager

Sound

Stanley Black

Original Music Composer

Len Abbott

Sound Recordist

Stephen Cross

Sound Editor

James Stevens

Original Music Composer

Kevin Sutton

Sound Recordist

Stanley Black

Music Director

Writing

Joan Littlewood

Screenplay

Stephen Lewis

Screenplay