Gert and Daisy’s Weekend – 1942 | 79 mins | Comedy | B&W

Plot Synopsis

Cockney music hall and BBC radio favourites Elsie and Doris Waters do their patriotic bit for British cinema in this ramshackle but lively wartime comedy. The film medium allows them to bring their well-honed music hall and radio personas to the screen in full flood and the comic shenanigans even give them a chance to sing a couple of lively songs. Attractive support comes from Iris Vandeleur as a sharp-tongued neighbour, John Slater and Wally Patch and, especially, from Aubrey Mallalieu as a much put-upon butler.

Gert (Elsie Waters) and Daisy (Doris Waters) mistakenly volunteer to help evacuate a gang of fractious East End kids to a smart country mansion. The duo and their wards arrive at Pipham Hall, home of Lady Plumtree (Annie Esmond), and neither the toffs nor their butlers and maids much care for the visitors. Soon the boisterous evacuees are accused of stealing Lady Plumtree’s jewellery and the police are called in.