Co-operette

Debroy Somers and his Band, comedian Hal Walters and the delightful dance troupe ‘The Six Co-Operettes’ all feature in this full-colour promotional film for the Co-Operative Wholesale Society. Watch with wonder as one sprightly young vegetable tears strips off the other in the bewildering but brilliant ‘carrot and onion dance’. Comedian Stanley Holloway was famous for his comic monologues but for reasons unknown, he never gets started here. The BFI’s copy of this extremely rare film cuts away just as it looks like he’s going begin his routine.

Country:

United Kingdom

Genre:

Music,

Comedy

Duration:

15 minutes

Year:

1938

Director:

Montgomery Tully

Cast:
Stanley Holloway

Montgomery Tully

Harry Waxman

Hal Walters

Crew:
Harold Purcell

Story

Terence Egan

Script

Harry Waxman

Director of Photography

C. Beaumont

Editor

Harold Watson

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