Jack Melford discovers Wylie Watson in a park singing with a great tenor voice.He then brings him to Radio House.Telford pretends he is the singer because of Watson's unpreposessing looks.They have to contend with a bluenose governor who disapproves of crooners and wants to get them sacked.This amusing film is clearly meant to be a send up of the BBC.Hilarious cameo by a page boy at the entrance who is constantly talking in then current American slang.
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Bright Farce With A Hint Of Satire
boblipton6 August 2023
The BBC's light entertainment is going over like a rock, with such unpopular fair as folk songs of the Scilly Isles and the Bohemian State Orchestra playing 12-tone music. Meanwhile, Jack Melford discovers homeless Wylie Watson crooning to his expectant dog and hits on an idea. He busts their way into the offices of the corporation and pitches the idea of a radio lover, with Watson crooning the tunes. Through the usual series of misunderstandings that any comedy requires, Melford becomes the face while Watson sings the syrupy songs.
You may recall Watson as Mr. Memory in Hitchcock's 39 STEPS, which makes the whole idea risible. It's also an accurate statement about the blue noses that ran the BBC, who looked upon their remit as to educate and elevate the British listening public; many a popular performer found himself in hot water with the censors, or forced to change the lyrics of a song from "She sits among the cabbages and peas" to "She sits among the cabbages and leeks".
With Ann Penn, Betty Ann Davies, and Max Faber.
You may recall Watson as Mr. Memory in Hitchcock's 39 STEPS, which makes the whole idea risible. It's also an accurate statement about the blue noses that ran the BBC, who looked upon their remit as to educate and elevate the British listening public; many a popular performer found himself in hot water with the censors, or forced to change the lyrics of a song from "She sits among the cabbages and peas" to "She sits among the cabbages and leeks".
With Ann Penn, Betty Ann Davies, and Max Faber.
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