Band Waggon
Band Waggon – 1940 | 85 mins | Comedy | B&W
Plot Synopsis
Farcical musical extravaganza based on the popular ‘Band Waggon’ BBC radio show The films plot is slender and is merely a vehicle for to present a number of music hall numbers and comedy routines.
‘Big-Hearted’ Arthur Askey, Richard ‘Stinker’ Murdoch and Lewis the goat live happily on the roof of Broadcasting House until BBC exec Claude Pilkington discovers them. Meanwhile,Pilkington has to deal with the Jack Hylton Band who will go to extraordinary lengths to earn audition at the BBC. Newly homeless Arthur and Stinker takeover a haunted Sussex castle, and when they find broadcasting apparatus in the basement they convert it into a TV station for Arthur, Stinker, Pat Kirkwood and the Jack Hylton Band.
Production Team
Marcel Varnel: Director
Henry Harris: Cinematography
Arthur Crabtree: Cinematography
Alfred Roome: Editorial Department
RE Dearing: Film Editing
Edward Black: Producer
Maurice Ostrer: Producer
Marriott Edgar: Script
John Watt: Script
Harry S Pepper: Script
Gordon Crier: Script
Vernon Harris: Script
Val Guest: Script
Robert Edmunds: Script
JOC Orton: Script
Sydney Wiles: Sound Department
Cast
Arthur Askey: Arthur
Richard Murdoch: Richard \’Stinker\’ Murdoch
Jack Hylton: Himself
Patricia Kirkwood: Pat
Moore Marriott: Jasper
Freddy Schweitzer: Himself
Bruce Trent: Himself
CH Middleton: Himself
Jasmine Bligh: Herself
Jonah Barrington: Himself
Paul Holt: Himself
Peter Gawthorne: Claude Pilkington
