Elstree Calling

IMDb link: 0020852
IMDb rating: 4.9 (622 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Musical
Director: Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Hulbert, Andre Charlot, Adrian Brunel, Paul Murray
Cast: Tommy Handley, Gordon Begg, Teddy Brown, Will Fyffe, Cicely Courtneidge, Helen Burnell, Bobbie Comber, Lawrence Green, Ivor McLaren and others

Release date: 29 Sep 1930
Release year: 1930
Runtime: 86 minutes
Country: United Kingdom
Keywords: anthology film, portmanteau film, omnibus film, collection of short films, collective filmmaking, pie fight, pie in the face, song, singing, dancer

Plot:

A series of nineteen musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself). There are two "running gags" which connect the sketches. In one, an actor wants to perform Shakespeare, but he is continually denied air-time. The other gag has an inventor trying to view the broadcast on television. Four of the sketches are in color (in shades of yellow and brown only).

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