Felt the last review a little harsh. Admittedly, the flimsy plot seems little more than a vehicle to string a number of variety hall skits together, but some of these are funny, and Betty Jumel is a delightful comic actress. Stilted, naive, haphazard, badly directed and inadvertently charming, I would recommend this to anyone who, like myself, enjoys the amateurish charms of regional British cinema of the 1940s. There are worse ways of spending an hour and a half!
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Wasn't that bad
Lucy-Lastic30 May 2018
One way of seeing musical hall acts as this film is basically that. Various people come in, do their very dated bit of tomfoolery and go out again. Some bits I did find laugh out loud centred around Sandy Powell, but most were cringeworthy, especially the monocled Dan Young who was absolutely DIRE!! Surely even then people didn't find him that funny - he even managed to make the slapstick laboured and humourless.
Certainly better than the first reviewer would have it, and if he is a fan of Frank Randell ("Someone more sophisticated such as Frank Randell!") we can dismiss his taste in comedy as there WAS man who was not funny and whose only act was to loon a toothless grin.
Interesting to see a 21 year old Pat Phoenix.........................Oh, and a very young Bernard Youens.
Certainly better than the first reviewer would have it, and if he is a fan of Frank Randell ("Someone more sophisticated such as Frank Randell!") we can dismiss his taste in comedy as there WAS man who was not funny and whose only act was to loon a toothless grin.
Interesting to see a 21 year old Pat Phoenix.........................Oh, and a very young Bernard Youens.
Disasterously Unfunny Comedy
malcolmgsw26 September 2009
This film was made by Mancunian Films based in Manchester.The film was directed by its owner John Blakely.It marks,not surprisingly, the end of Sandy Powell's short film career.Both he and everyone in the film seems to think that if they laugh at their own jokes then we will to.Here is an example of the type of fun on offer:- Girl To Waiter:I would like an Advocat Boyfriend:I had a car but i sold it. That is one of the better examples.The film lasts 88 minutes but by the way it has been edited you would think that they must have shot 188 minutes.It is so badly edited it is an incoherent mess.Unless you are a devotee of Sandy Powell or a lover of truly bad films i would suggest that you turn to someone more sophisticated such as Frank Randell!
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