Band Waggon

1940
TV-G
1h 25m

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Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch in Band Waggon (1940)

A plot involving spies in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.A plot involving spies in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.A plot involving spies in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.

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5.4/10

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Arthur Askey

Arthur Askey
(as Big Hearted Arthur Askey)

Jack Hylton and His Band

Themselves

Richard Murdoch

Stinker Murdoch
(as Richard Stinker Murdoch)

Pat Kirkwood

Pat
(as Patricia Kirkwood)

Moore Marriott

Jasper

Freddy Schweitzer

Self - Accordian Player

Bruce Trent

Self

Michael Standing

Self

C.H. Middleton

Self
(as Mr. Middleton)

Jasmine Bligh

Self

The Sherman Fisher Girls

Dancers
(as Sherman Fisher Girls)

Jonah Barrington

Self

Paul Holt

Self

Peter Gawthorne

Claude Pilkington

Donald Calthrop

Hobday

Wally Patch

Commissionaire

Wallace Bosco

Man Listening to Radio
(uncredited)

Richard Coke

Minor Role
(uncredited)

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Trivia
Spin-off from a highly popular BBC Radio series, which ran from January 1938 to December 1939.

Goofs
BBC TV went off the air on 3 Sept 1939 so any TV broadcasts after that date by the BBC are impossible. This movie was released in 1940 so is not realistic, although entertaining.,

Connections
Featured in The Story of Light Entertainment: Radio Stars (2006)

Soundtracks
The Melody Maker
(uncredited)
Written by Noel Gay and Frank Eyton
Performed by Jack Hylton and His Band, Pat Kirkwood and Chorus
Danced by The Sherman Fisher Girls

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5/10

The nickname of Murdoch could apply to this film

This is one of the earliest spin offs this time of the 1939 radio programme.The plot such as it is is concocted around of all things a TV broadcast.The original show was a combination of sketches stand up routines and music hall turns,and the film rather adheres to that.I suppose whether or not you like this film will to a certain extent depend on how much you like Arthur Askey.It has to be said that there is an awful lot of him in this film.Probably far too much.His stooge is Richard "Stinker"Murdoch.I have no idea how he got his nickname.There are a lot of musical numbers which are pleasant but fairly undistinguished.Moore Marriot and Pat Kirkwood are in support.This would be one of the last appearances of Jack Hylton before he would take on his entrepreneurial role in the West End.