Variety Jubilee
Butcher's Film Service (1943)
Musical
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IMDB   6.2
1 hr 32 mins UK / English
DVD  Region 1   NR
Reginald Purdell Joe Swan
Ellis Irving Kit Burns
Lesley Brook Evelyn Vincent
Marie Lloyd Herself
Tom E. Finglass Eugene Stratton
John Rorke Gus Elen
Betty Warren Florrie Forde
George Robey Himself
Charles Coborn Himself
Ella Retford Herself
Charles Shadwell Himself
Joan Winters Herself
Nat Ayer Himself
Director
Maclean Rogers
Producer F.W. Baker
Writer Kathleen Butler
Mabel Constanduros
Cinematography Geoffrey Faithfull
Musician Percival Mackey

This domestic melodrama chronicles three generations of a family of music-hall owners.

In the early 1900s, two variety stars, Kit Burns and Joe Swann, are staunch friends even when Kit marries Joe's dancing partner Evelyn. Joe fights in the Boer War where a bullet puts an end to his dancing days. He goes to work on the staff at Burns' Music Hall where Kit Jr. soon finds a place in his affections. Kit and Joe purchase the music hall and soon become a success.

When WWI erupts, the popularity of the music halls decline, and the Burns and Swann music hall falls into disrepair. Their business falls further into decline when Kit and Evelyn's son, Kit Jr., is killed in a dog fight over France. Unable to revive their theatre, Kit and Evelyn die in poverty and Swann ends as the theatre doorman.

Fortunately, Kit senior's grandson, also named Kit, decides to save and run the hall. He does so until he joins the RAF to fight in WW II.

This musical is a last hurrah and showcase for the great English music hall veterans including Charles Coborn singing his famous "Two Lovely Black Eyes" and " The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo", singer Marie Lloyd as herself, comedian, George Robey, the acrobats, Ganjou Brothers & Juanita, and sand dancers Wilson, Keppel and Betty. Other acts include Can-Can dancers, and a Military Band.
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