Curiously entertaining I thought. Dated of course but it was made in 1954, song and dance routines. including max Bygraves and the Beverly sisters.
4 Reviews
Not bad better than I expected.
stephenbells6 August 2020
Dancing dog.
mfoster330 March 2021
The Bevs' Sole Film Appearance
richardchatten19 July 2020
A very poor man's 'Ziegfeld Follies', originally meant to be in 3D (which explains the smoke rings blown directly at the camera by juggler Jack Kelly) but so cheap it wasn't even done in colour.
Shot on one set at the Gate Studios at Boreham Wood and bookended by dancing girls the Television Toppers, it resembles a series of sequences without a surrounding feature film. What passes for a linking story is provided by comic policeman Jack Billings skipping about the set and being amused or double-taking at whatever he sees; most notably three shop mannequins that come to life and prove to be the Beverley Sisters in cut-off dungarees. Joy's voice is the first you hear in the film, the emphasis having so far been on dance. But Max Bygraves unfortunately then makes up for lost time.
To give it all a bit of class, in the lengthiest single sequence ballerina Svetlana Beriosova performs the pas de deux from the second act of 'Swan Lake' with David Paltenghi; an experience she hated, since - contrary to the way such numbers are always depicted being shot in films set in film studios - constant cuts and breaks were required to get a single dance phrase on film.
Shot on one set at the Gate Studios at Boreham Wood and bookended by dancing girls the Television Toppers, it resembles a series of sequences without a surrounding feature film. What passes for a linking story is provided by comic policeman Jack Billings skipping about the set and being amused or double-taking at whatever he sees; most notably three shop mannequins that come to life and prove to be the Beverley Sisters in cut-off dungarees. Joy's voice is the first you hear in the film, the emphasis having so far been on dance. But Max Bygraves unfortunately then makes up for lost time.
To give it all a bit of class, in the lengthiest single sequence ballerina Svetlana Beriosova performs the pas de deux from the second act of 'Swan Lake' with David Paltenghi; an experience she hated, since - contrary to the way such numbers are always depicted being shot in films set in film studios - constant cuts and breaks were required to get a single dance phrase on film.
Rather Strange
malcolmgsw22 September 2020
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