Elstree Calling

Elstree Calling (1930)

U 1930-02-06 (GB) Music, Comedy 1h 23m

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What's your Vibe?

Översikt

A series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live television broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself).

Adrian Brunel

Director, Writer
Paul Murray

Director
Jack Hulbert

Director
Alfred Hitchcock

Director
André Charlot

Director
Val Valentine

Writer
Walter C. Mycroft

Writer

Huvudrollsinnehavare

Tommy Handley

The Host
Teddy Brown

Himself
Donald Calthrop

Himself / Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew
Jack Hulbert

Himself
Helen Burnell

Herself
The Adelphi Chorus Girls
The Three Eddies

Themselves
Lily Morris

Herself
Will Fyffe

Himself
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A distinctly off-form Tommy Handley introduces this rather curious piece of cinematic entertainment that features a variety of stars from the British stage at the end of the 1920s. The mixture of musical, comedy and magical turns illustrates well just quite how a real pot-pourri of acts took to the stage in theatres up and down the UK - but there is no audience. Without the engagement, even applause, from those watching the whole thing comes across as a rather sterile collection of concert performances, as if filmed in an empty television studio. It has a couple of rather tenuous continuing thr... läs resten.

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