Somewhere in Camp

It's a sequel to SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND, with Frank Randle, Harry Korris, and their Northern Music Hall crew doing exactly the same sort of brief skits that used to play in burlesque in the United States. To eke it out, there are several musical numbers, including a performance of the recently cleaned-up "Bless Them All".

Unlike other Randle movies, the romantic subplot involving private John Singer and Colonel's daughter Antoinette Lupino -- yes, one of the innumerable Lupino clan, niece to Lupino Lane and cousin of Ida Lupino -- is not handwaved away for the inevitable flag-waving end number (here titled "All Aboard For Victory"), but actually is closed out in a decent, although improbable manner.

Even so, the point of the movie is to watch Randle & company do the sort of low comedy that made them so popular in the cheaper halls, and banned on the BBC. It's not the sort of stuff I enjoy, unless done at the sort of speed that Abbott & Costello could manage, but it does show what ordinary people liked in Britain in the 1940s.