Time Flies is a 1944 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Tommy Handley, Evelyn Dall, Felix Aylmer and Moore Marriott.^[1] The screenplay concerns two music hall performers, an inventor and a con-man who travel back to Elizabethan times using a time machine.^[2]

A professor invents a time sphere which takes a group of 1940s entertainers to Elizabethan London, where they encounter Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh and introduce them to jazz culture.

They also meet Captain John Smith and a very heavy-drinking Pocahontas. The main female character meets William Shakespeare and feeds him some of his own lines, which he eagerly writes down.

A costume-production, (many of which are immaculate), which makes extensive use of the Gainsborough wardrobe.

• Tommy Handley – Tommy
• Evelyn Dall – Susie Barton
• George Moon – Bill Barton
• Felix Aylmer – The Professor
• Moore Marriott – A Soothsayer
• Graham Moffatt – His Nephew
• John Salew – William Shakespeare
• Leslie Bradley – Captain Walter Raleigh
• Olga Lindo – Queen Elizabeth
• Roy Emerton – Captain John Smith
• Iris Lang – Princess Pocahontas
• Stéphane Grappelli – A Troubadour

Sky Cinema gave the film two out of five stars, its review stating: "Despite the subject and the cast, the treatment lacks vivacity".^[3] TV Guide rated it similarly: "A well-tuned script takes full advantages of the possibilities for comedy, but radio star Handley is a bit of a disappointment, looking sourly out of place on the screen";^[4] The Radio Times rated it three out of five stars, concluding: "Some of the jokes have travelled less well and it falls flat in places, but it's a thoroughly entertaining romp".^[5]