A 1932 British musical so obscure even your film professor hasn't heard of it.
Direction
Lupino Lane brings vaudeville physicality to operetta staging.
Production
Absurdly ambitious Alpine sets on a British studio budget.
Director
Lupino Lane
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lupino Lane was a celebrated silent film comedian who transitioned to directing; this was his sound-era attempt at prestige. His nephew? None other than Ida Lupino, future noir queen and pioneering female director.
Based on a 1917 operetta that ran over 1,300 performances in London, this film arrived just as the musical genre was being reinvented by Busby Berkeley in Hollywood—making it a fascinating evolutionary dead end.
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