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Alf's Button is a 1920 British comic novel written by William Aubrey Darlington. [1] A soldier in the British Army comes across a magic button which summons a genie to grant his wishes. [2] It drew inspiration from Thomas Anstey Guthrie's 1900 novel The Brass Bottle.
- William Aubrey Darlington
- 1920
Alf's Button is a 1920 British comic novel written by William Aubrey Darlington. [1] A soldier in the British Army comes across a magic button which summons a genie to grant his wishes. [2] It drew inspiration from Thomas Anstey Guthrie's 1900 novel The Brass Bottle.
Practice games and trial runs were arranged to dovetail into each other with devilish ingenuity, until Alf began to consider the advisability of rubbing this mysterious button of his and obtaining a relapse.
Jul 22, 2012 · The Crazy Gang is at it again! Alf gets a uniform with a magic button on it. When the button is rubbed a genie appears. There are many funny scenes when the genie takes Alf's slang terms literally. The conclusion is the usual shouting and running around with nearly everyone happy at the ending.
- 86 min
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- billymays55
Jun 18, 2019 · The story is set during World War I and follows the adventures of Private Alfred Higgins, a somewhat inept soldier who unexpectedly comes into possession of a magical button that grants him a djinn, whom he names Eustace.
- William Aubrey Darlington
- English
- 1920
- 20M
Humorous novel of a doughboy private whose jacket button was made from Aladdin's lamp and possesses powers. Basis for the 1938 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Jimmy Nervo, Alastair Sim and Peter Gawthorne. Scarce.
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Alf's Button is a 1920 British silent fantasy comedy film directed by Cecil Hepworth and starring Leslie Henson, Alma Taylor and Gerald Ames. It was based on the 1920 novel Alf's Button by William Darlington.
