Band Waggon
A gang of spies held up in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.
From the archive
Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch are discovered after months of living on the roof of Broadcasting House with their chickens and Lewis the goat, waiting for their chance at stardom. On their subsequent aimless travels in their overladen car, the Askeytoff II, they end up renting the haunted Droom Castle for the princely sum of £3. The perfectly natural explanation for the ghost is that Nazis are at the bottom of it all (in the basement), using a TV hook-up to Berlin. Of course Arthur has a much better idea: put on a pirate TV station and broadcast a music show that night in competition with the stuffy old BBC.
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Band Waggon (1940) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a public-domain or openly licensed work, which means its copyright has expired, lapsed, or was released by the rights holder. The uploader declared an explicit licence, linked in the source panel. Nitrate streams the file directly from the Archive and hosts no video itself.
- Director
- Marcel Varnel
- Starring
- Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Peter Gawthorne, Jack Hylton, Pat Kirkwood, Moore Marriott, Donald Calthrop, Wally Patch
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