Band Waggon (1939)

Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1939
Running Times: 80 mins     85 mins
Format: black and white    35mm
Ratio:
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Gainsborough Pictures
Producer: Edward Black
In Charge of Production: Maurice Ostrer

SCRIPT
Script / Devised By: John Watt, Harry Pepper, Gordon Crier, Vernon Harris, J.O.C. Orton, Val Guest, Marriott Edgar, Bob Edmunds

DIRECTION
Director: Marcel Varnel

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Arthur Crabtree

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: R.E. Dearing
Cutter: Alfred Roome

SOUND
Sound: S. Wiles

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Settings: Vetchinsky

LOCATIONS
Studio: Shepherd's Bush Studios, London, England, UK; Gainsborough Studios, England, UK

CAST
Arthur Askey (Big-Hearted Arthur)
Jack Hylton and His Band (themselves)
Richard 'Stinker' Murdoch (Stinker)
Patricia Kirkwood (Pat)
Moore Marriott (Jasper)
Freddy Schweitzer (himself)
Bruce Trent (himself)
Michael Standing (himself)
C.H. Middleton (himself)
Jasmine Black (herself)
The Sherman Fisher Girls (themselves)
Jonah Barrington (himself)
Paul Holt (himself)
Peter Gawthorne (Claude Pilkington)
Donald Calthrop (Hobday)
Wally Patch (BBC commissionaire)
Bernard Miles (foreign agent (uncredited))
Richard George (official (uncredited))
James Hayter (uncredited)
Michael Hordern (uncredited)
Forsythe, Seamon and Farrell (uncredited)
Meinhart Maur (uncredited)
Charles Oliver (uncredited)
Gordon Court (uncredited)
Pat Williams (uncredited)
Richard Coke (uncredited)
Noel Dainton (uncredited)

When they're discovered living rough on the roof of the BBC's Broadcasting House, Arthur Askey and Dickie 'Stinker' Murdoch are forced to seek shelter in Droon Castle in Sussex. There they find a whole load of TV equipment and decide to put on a show, not realising that the hi-tech equipment actually belongs to a group of Nazi spies.

TIMELINE

1981
August
5: UK - television broadcast (on ITV)

1987
February
7: UK - television broadcast (on BBC2)

1994
June
20: UK - television broadcast (on BBC2)

1995
December
8: UK - television broadcast (on BBC2)

MAGAZINES

Kinematograph Weekly no.1709 (18 January 1940) p.35 (UK)
review

Monthly Film Bulletin vol.7 no.73 (January 1940) p.1 (UK)
review

Motion Picture Herald vol.138 no.8 (24 February 1940) pp.38, 40 (USA)
review

Today's Cinema vol.54 no.4365 (17 January 1940) p.9 (UK)
review

BOOKS

Horror and Science Fiction Films II p.19
credits

homelessness, television, nazis

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008