1h 28min | Comedy | 24 March 1959 (UK)
Director: John Gilling
Stars: William Bendix, Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey.
Only on this list because it was included in a 20-musical pack from Columbia. This is British through & through; even WB has a UK accent. It's not tagged as music/al, and I'm not going to argue.
5 songs in the Soundtracks, sung with that horrid echo-amplification of the time. Doesn't particularly sound like AN, but no dubber listed.
This is 29th of 42 films for AN.
As if the singing weren't awful enough, the army antics are really bad, and the language has Brit slang, or maybe the accents are so thick it just seems so.
Example of bad: AN's manager sneaks him out of the barracks (no idea how he got such easy access) to perform. One of his army officers attends the show, and yells that he's AWOL. A tough behind the officer yells at the officer to sit down and shut up, and the officer starts a fight. AN comes down off stage to his officer's defense. So instead of prosecuting AN for being AWOL, the officer thanks AN for coming to his aid. There are too many things wrong with that scene to merit discussion.
Warwick Film Prod., distr. Columbia, dir. Gilling; 4
