Music Hall

This is an interesting account of, among other things, rivalry between different music hall managements and artists, well played, with a rumbustious turn by Stanley Holloway and a slightly subdued one by Tommy Trinder who, I imagine, was happier actually working the halls than making films about them. It's all pretty lavish for 1944 with some terrific sets filmed from high angles, rather like the sets in Hollywood's 'Dead End', despite wartime austerity. Among the faces, you'll spot Hazel Court as an ingenue with no lines, and James Robertson Justice, again with no speaking part.