A very poor man's 'Ziegfeld Follies', originally meant to be in 3D (which explains the smoke rings blown directly at the camera by juggler Jack Kelly) but so cheap it wasn't even done in colour.
Shot on one set at the Gate Studios at Boreham Wood and bookended by dancing girls the Television Toppers, it resembles a series of sequences without a surrounding feature film. What passes for a linking story is provided by comic policeman Jack Billings skipping about the set and being amused or double-taking at whatever he sees; most notably three shop mannequins that come to life and prove to be the Beverley Sisters in cut-off dungarees. Joy's voice is the first you hear in the film, the emphasis having so far been on dance. But Max Bygraves unfortunately then makes up for lost time.
To give it all a bit of class, in the lengthiest single sequence ballerina Svetlana Beriosova performs the pas de deux from the second act of 'Swan Lake' with David Paltenghi; an experience she hated, since - contrary to the way such numbers are always depicted being shot in films set in film studios - constant cuts and breaks were required to get a single dance phrase on film.
Shot on one set at the Gate Studios at Boreham Wood and bookended by dancing girls the Television Toppers, it resembles a series of sequences without a surrounding feature film. What passes for a linking story is provided by comic policeman Jack Billings skipping about the set and being amused or double-taking at whatever he sees; most notably three shop mannequins that come to life and prove to be the Beverley Sisters in cut-off dungarees. Joy's voice is the first you hear in the film, the emphasis having so far been on dance. But Max Bygraves unfortunately then makes up for lost time.
To give it all a bit of class, in the lengthiest single sequence ballerina Svetlana Beriosova performs the pas de deux from the second act of 'Swan Lake' with David Paltenghi; an experience she hated, since - contrary to the way such numbers are always depicted being shot in films set in film studios - constant cuts and breaks were required to get a single dance phrase on film.