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	'''''Band Waggon''''' is a 1940 [[Cinema of the United Kingdom\|British]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Marcel Varnel]] and starring [[Arthur Askey]], [[Richard Murdoch]] and [[Moore Marriott]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/25052 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113221142/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/25052 \|url-status=dead \|archive-date=13 January 2009 \|title=BFI \| Film & TV Database \| BAND WAGGON (1940) \|publisher=Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk \|date=16 April 2009 \|access-date=2012-01-15}}</ref> It was based on the [[BBC]] [[radio show]] ''[[Band Waggon]]''.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.britmovie.co.uk/films/Band-Waggon_1940/ \|title=Band Waggon 1940 \| Britmovie \| Home of British Films \|publisher=Britmovie \|access-date=2012-01-15}}</ref>		'''''Band Waggon''''' is a 1940 [[w:Cinema of the United Kingdom\|British]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Marcel Varnel]] and starring [[Arthur Askey]], [[Richard Murdoch]] and [[Moore Marriott]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/25052 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113221142/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/25052 \|url-status=dead \|archive-date=13 January 2009 \|title=BFI \| Film & TV Database \| BAND WAGGON (1940) \|publisher=Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk \|date=16 April 2009 \|access-date=2012-01-15}}</ref> It was based on the [[BBC]] [[radio show]] ''[[Band Waggon]]''.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.britmovie.co.uk/films/Band-Waggon_1940/ \|title=Band Waggon 1940 \| Britmovie \| Home of British Films \|publisher=Britmovie \|access-date=2012-01-15}}</ref>

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{{short description|1940 film by Marcel Varnel}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2013}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Band Waggon
| image = "Band_Waggon"_(1940).jpg
| image_size =
| caption = UK trade show poster
| director = [[Marcel Varnel]]
| producer = [[Edward Black (producer)|Edward Black]]
| writer = [[John Watt (broadcaster)|John Watt]] [[Harry S. Pepper]] [[Gordon Crier]] [[Vernon Harris]] [[J. O. C. Orton]] [[Val Guest]] [[Marriott Edgar]] Robert Edmunds
| starring = [[Arthur Askey]] [[Richard Murdoch]]
| music =
| cinematography = [[Arthur Crabtree]] [[Henry Harris (cinematographer)|Henry Harris]]
| editing = [[R. E. Dearing]]
| studio = [[Gainsborough Pictures]]
| distributor = [[General Film Distributors]]
| released = 23 March 1940 (UK)
| runtime = 85 minutes (UK)
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
}}

'''''Band Waggon''''' is a 1940 [[Cinema of the United Kingdom|British]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Marcel Varnel]] and starring [[Arthur Askey]], [[Richard Murdoch]] and [[Moore Marriott]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/25052 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113221142/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/25052 |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 January 2009 |title=BFI | Film & TV Database | BAND WAGGON (1940) |publisher=Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk |date=16 April 2009 |access-date=2012-01-15}}</ref> It was based on the [[BBC]] [[radio show]] ''[[Band Waggon]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britmovie.co.uk/films/Band-Waggon_1940/ |title=Band Waggon 1940 | Britmovie | Home of British Films |publisher=Britmovie |access-date=2012-01-15}}</ref>

==Plot==
Arthur Askey and Stinker Murdoch, two out-of-work performers, are living on the roof of the [[Broadcasting House]] in [[Central London]]. After being called in for an audition with the [[BBC]] three months before, they were forgotten about and settled down to live there waiting for their big chance. One day an item from their [[clothes line]] falls and hits Claude Pilkington, a senior figure at the BBC, who has them evicted. They are forced to pack up all their belongings and leave.

While driving home that evening one of the tyres on Pilkington's car gets a puncture from broken glass lying on the road. It has been put there by the owners of the Jack-in-the-Box restaurant, who hope their [[cabaret]] act will be given a contract with the BBC and have so far failed to gain an audition. Pilkington sits unwittingly through their act, including singers [[Jack Hylton]] and [[Patricia Kirkwood]], barely noticing it while he reads the newspaper. When he discovers that they have caused his puncture, he storms off in anger.

Meanwhile, Askey and Murdoch have found themselves in the countryside. Needing somewhere to live they go to a local [[estate agent]] hoping to pick up a cheap cottage. Instead they are offered a [[castle]] for £3 rent, which the owner is trying to get off his hands as it is haunted. After they settle down in the castle they begin a sequence of sinister happenings occur despite the estate agent's insistence that there is a "perfectly natural explanation for everything". When they encounter Jasper Blackfang, a ghost who claims to haunt the place, they flee and take shelter at the nearby Jack-in-the Box restaurant.

Emboldened by the realization that the ghost is in fact the [[Property caretaker|caretaker]] of the castle, who has been living there rent free, they return along with Hylton and Kirkwood. They discover a television studio inside the castle, which the caretaker claims is being used by a pirate commercial station. In fact it is being used by [[Nazi]] agents in Britain, but the caretaker is unaware of this.

Frustrated by their failure to secure an audition at the BBC, they decide to use the studios to broadcast their own show. Arthur Askey does a performance on the same [[wavelength]] as the BBC television station, interrupting a programme by Pilkington himself, who has to be faded out. Pilkington is furious by the interruption, but the pirate show generates huge interest amongst the general public. Pilkington, meanwhile, gets [[Scotland Yard]] to hunt down the pirate station. Their determination to find the station is boosted by the realisation that the castle contains plans of British planes stolen by the Nazi agents, and Askey unwittingly holds up the plans during his broadcast.

Askey has organised a major hour-long performance which ends in a finale with where the police, BBC officials and Nazi agents all converge on the castle, while a [[time bomb]] is ominously ticking down. The programme is such a roaring success that the BBC eventually agree to Askey, Murdoch and their associates having their own show.

== Cast ==
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*[[Arthur Askey]] as Arthur Askey
*[[Richard Murdoch]] as Stinker Murdoch
*[[Patricia Kirkwood]] as Pat
*[[Moore Marriott]] as Jasper
*Freddy Schweitzer as himself (accordion player) {{spaces|10}}
*Bruce Trent as himself
*Michael Standing as himself
*C.H. Middleton as himself
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*[[Jasmine Bligh]] as herself
*[[Jonah Barrington (journalist)|Jonah Barrington]] as himself
*[[Peter Gawthorne]] as Claude Pilkington
*[[Donald Calthrop]] as Hobday
*[[Wally Patch]] as Commissionaire
*Jack Hylton and His Band as band
*[[Jack Hylton]] as himself (bandleader)
*[[The Sherman Fisher Girls]] as dancers
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== Soundtrack ==
* "The Melody Maker" – by [[Noel Gay]] and [[Frank Eyton]] – performed by Jack Hylton, Patricia Kirkwood and Chorus with Jack Hylton and His Band and The Sherman Fisher Girls
*"The Only One Who's Difficult Is You" – by Noel Gay and [[Clifford Grey]] – performed by Richard Murdoch, Patricia Kirkwood and Arthur Askey with Jack Hylton and His Band
*"After Dark" – by Noel Gay
*"Heaven Will Be Heavenly" – by [[Harry Parr Davies]] and Roma Campbell Hunter – performed by Patricia Kirkwood and chorus
*"A Pretty Bird" – by Kenneth Blane – performed by Arthur Askey
*"Boomps-A-Daisy" – by [[Annette Mills]] – performed by Patricia Kirkwood, Richard Murdoch, Jack Hylton and Arthur Askey
*"Band Waggon (theme song)" – by [[Harry S. Pepper]] – performed by the chorus during the opening credits and reprised at the end by Jack Hylton and His Band
*"Big Hearted Arthur" – by Robert Rutherford and Frank Wilcock – performed by Arthur Askey
*"[[Old King Cole]]" (traditional [[nursery song]]) – performed by Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch and the trio of Charlie Forsythe, Addie Seamon and Eleanor Farrell

==References==
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== External links ==
*{{IMDb title|id=0031077|title=Band Waggon}}
*{{tcmdb title|68053}}
*{{amg title|84357}}

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[[Category:Films based on radio series]]
[[Category:Gainsborough Pictures films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Marcel Varnel]]
[[Category:Films with screenplays by Marriott Edgar]]
[[Category:1940s English-language films]]
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