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Elstree Calling is a British film of genre Comedy directed by Alfred Hitchcock with Donald Calthrop

Elstree Calling (1930)

Elstree Calling
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Length 1h26
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Genres Comedy,    Musical theatre,    Musical
Rating49% 2.4682.4682.4682.4682.468

Elstree Calling (1930) is a film directed by Andre Charlot, Jack Hulbert, Paul Murray, and Alfred Hitchcock at Elstree Studios.

Synopsis

The film, referred to as "A Cine-Radio Revue" in its original publicity, is a lavish musical film revue and was Britain's answer to the Hollywood revues which had been produced by the major studios in the United States, such as Paramount on Parade (1930) and Hollywood Review of 1929. The revue has a slim storyline about it being a television broadcast. The film consists of 19 comedy and music vignettes linked by running jokes of an aspiring Shakespearean actor and technical problems with a viewer's TV set.

Actors

Donald Calthrop

(Himself / Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew)Bobbie Comber

(Herself)Jameson Thomas
Anna May Wong

(Herself / Katherina in Taming of the Shrew)Cicely Courtneidge
And :
Gordon Harker
Jack Hulbert
John Longden
John Stuart
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