Possibly Norman Wisdom's most elaborate vehicle goes on for far too long and squanders a fascinating if largely uncredited cast of future stars (including Dick Emery and Charles Gray) as he breaks into show business and indulges in various noisy set-pieces which at regular intervals repeatedly brings the whole mess to a shuddering halt.
Because he's played by little Norman's perennial nemesis Jerry Desmonde we're expected to consider Vernon Carew the villain (although it's his complementary tickets that get the little fellow past the theatre doorman in the first place); and it feels like contrived striving for pathos that leading lady June Laverick spends the whole film in a wheelchair (although seen today that might be its redeeming feature in including a paraplegic romantic female lead).
Because he's played by little Norman's perennial nemesis Jerry Desmonde we're expected to consider Vernon Carew the villain (although it's his complementary tickets that get the little fellow past the theatre doorman in the first place); and it feels like contrived striving for pathos that leading lady June Laverick spends the whole film in a wheelchair (although seen today that might be its redeeming feature in including a paraplegic romantic female lead).