Director Peter Collinson’s 1968 Up the Junction movie adaptation of Nell Dunn’s famous 1963 book and Ken Loach’s classic BBC TV adaptation of 1965 was popular but did not spark the kind of controversy or […]
The 1971 British comedy film Up the Chastity Belt is a bawdy, double-entendre laden medieval romp, a showcase for Frankie Howerd in a double role as the lowly serf Lurkalot and his twin brother King […]
Director Bob Kellett’s saucily coarse, very much hit-and-miss 1972 British comedy Up the Front stars the great comedian Frankie Howerd, who is again is on tittersome form as Lurk, Lord Twithampton (William Mervyn)’s cowardly servant. […]
Keeping to the established formula, obviously there are more people putting on a show – this time insurance salesmen – in the fourth Gold Diggers film, with Busby Berkeley this time credited only as the […]
Come along and listen to the Oscar-winning ‘Lullaby of Broadway’ (sung by Winifred [Wini] Shaw), and marvel at the choreography of director Busby Berkeley in this third movie in the Gold Diggers series. Harry Warren (music) and Al […]
Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler and Aline MacMahon star as Broadway babies, Carol, Polly and Trixie, chorus girls gold digging for rich husbands, in this spectacular 1933 Busby Berkeley backstage dance musical movie from Warner Bros. […]
Director Lloyd Bacon’s classic 1933 Warner Bros backstage musical is one of the best of its vivacious, toe-tapping kind. It has a quintessential putting-on-a-show plot, in which an out-of-work Broadway producer called Chester Kent (played by […]
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