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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.
It seems difficult to over-estimate the effect that the Great War had on the experience of those who survived it. A. J. P. Taylor describes it as the moment when “the history of the English state and of the English people merged for the first time.”1 The...
- Lawrence Napper
- 2015
The old reliable stage chestnut Alf's Button was given perfunctory treatment by British director Cecil Hepworth. Leslie Hensen plays Alf Higgins, a World War 1 "Tommy" who discovers that a button on his jacket has unusual magical powers.
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.
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.
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Alf's Button: Directed by Cecil M. Hepworth. With Leslie Henson, Alma Taylor, Gerald Ames, James Carew. A soldier's tunic button, made from Aladdin's lamp, grants his wishes.
