John Baxter

John Baxter was born on Dec 31, 1896 in UK. John Baxter's big-screen debut came with Say It with Flowers directed by John Baxter in 1934. John Baxter is known for The Dragon of Pendragon Castle directed by John Baxter, Leslie Bradley stars as Mr. Ferber and David Hannaford as Bobby. The upcoming new movie John Baxter plays is Make Mine a Million which will be released on Jan 13, 1965.

A maker of unpretentious working class comedies and musicals, John Baxter had started his career as a music hall performer himself and would later gravitate toward vehicles for the charming popular WWII duo Flanagan and Allen as well as the low brow transvestite humor of Old Mother Riley. He made, however,an unusual number of studies of the hardships of the poor, such as his masterful 1941 adaptation of Walter Greenwood's Depression drama Love On The Dole. In such works, still awaiting proper rediscovery by viewers and critics, he displayed, to borrow the title of another of his films, a genuine "Common Touch" .His genuine sensitivity toward the proletariat shows in comparison how patronizing, condescending, and phony the more well known visions of the so called "little people" are in Hollywood populist successes such as those of Frank Capra.