Variety Jubilee details
| Format: | PG DVD |
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| Starring: | Charles Coborn, Marie Lloyd, John Rorke, Peter Noble, Ellis Irving, Ella Retford, Ernest Butcher, Lesley Brook, Betty Warren, Tom E. Finglass, Charles Shadwell, George Robey, Reginald Purdell, Nat Ayer, Joan Winters |
| Director: | MacLean Rogers |
| Genres: | Drama - Musical, Music/Musical - Musical |
| Studio: | RENOWN PICTURES |
| Name | Discs | |
|---|---|---|
Variety Jubilee |
PG Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 32 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 28 Nov 2011 |
| Main languages: | English |
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Nostalgia Abounding
By FrankIV (506 reviews) from Cirencester, England , 19 Feb 2012[Highly rated reviewer]
This is a highly sentimental trawl through fifty years of British history viewed from the perspective of the changing face of entertainment, as it morphs from music hall into variety via world wars and technological innovation such as radio and cinema. It's all very soft-centred and there's a great deal of clunkingly irritating hindsight along the lines of 'Flying machines? They'll never last' and 'Income tax at one and threepence in the pound? The British people will never stand for it', but it's all terrifically good-humoured with a genuine affection for its subject matter, and there is much to enjoy, for example, the wonderful music hall melodies and the delivery of the stars, talking the lyrics while the orchestra plays the tune and the audience sings along behind them - George Robey actually appears here, and Marie Lloyd's daughter sings one of her mother's naughty songs. The film ends with twenty minutes of variety acts, including the wonderful Wilson Keppel and Betty - although, mysteriously, without Betty - and a jaw-droppingly death defying acrobatic troupe whose act would simply not be allowed today: watch it, and count the ways in which the young woman being thrown about could have been killed. The whole thing is rounded out by the obligatory war time flag-waver: it's by no means a great film, but it is quite absorbing and historically very interesting.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(1)Nostalgia Abounding
By FrankIV (506 reviews) from Cirencester, England , 19 Feb 2012This is a highly sentimental trawl through fifty years of British history viewed from the perspective of the changing face of entertainment, as it morphs from music hall into variety via world wars and technological innovation such as radio and cinema. It's all very soft-centred and there's a great deal of clunkingly irritating hindsight along the lines of 'Flying machines? They'll never last' and 'Income tax at one and threepence in the pound? The British people will never stand for it', but it's all terrifically good-humoured with a genuine affection for its subject matter, and there is much to enjoy, for example, the wonderful music hall melodies and the delivery of the stars, talking the lyrics while the orchestra plays the tune and the audience sings along behind them - George Robey actually appears here, and Marie Lloyd's daughter sings one of her mother's naughty songs. The film ends with twenty minutes of variety acts, including the wonderful Wilson Keppel and Betty - although, mysteriously, without Betty - and a jaw-droppingly death defying acrobatic troupe whose act would simply not be allowed today: watch it, and count the ways in which the young woman being thrown about could have been killed. The whole thing is rounded out by the obligatory war time flag-waver: it's by no means a great film, but it is quite absorbing and historically very interesting.- Was this review helpful to you?
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