Not a comedy in the true sense of the word and not everyone's cup of tea, but is listed as a comedy and if you like trad jazz you'll love this as the bands in this get most of the airing in the first film by Dick Lester, which has no plot to speak of, just Helen Shapiro and Craig Douglas wandering around the BBC music studios (as if) trying to get a DJ (Pete Murray, Alan "Fluff" Freeman or David Jacobs) to help them put a concert on in the stuffy town of Bad Trad (groan) and as the early 60s was heavily influenced by British Trad Jazz, this is the prime target, with just about everyone who was anyone on the Trad scene at that time.
In the meantime, as they wander around the studios we get to see various British pop singers and a section of American ones - CLEARLY NOT in the studios, but "pasted" in clips as Helen and Craig pretend to be watching them at a mock nightclub. Nevertheless, it was enjoyable to see the likes of Gene Vincent, Chubby Checker, Del Shannon etc., though sadly singing immemorable songs I'd never heard of.
Better than some early pop films I have watched recently.
There were a few comedy actors in it, such as Arthur Mullard, Hugh Lloyd, Frank Thornton, Derek Nimmo, Mario Fabrizi all playing minor bits parts and Deryck Guyler was a sort of narrator.
