Soho Conspiracy

Not the crime film it sounds like, but an ultra-cheap E.J.Fancey quickie cobbled together around footage of Four Great Stars of the Italian Opera recycled from an Italian film made a couple of years earlier called 'Follie per l'Opera'.

There's a long tradition of movies cannibalising footage from foreign films bought for a song, but the contrast is particularly marked here by the cheap and tinny film built around the footage of Beniamino Gigli, Tito Gobbi (whose 'English' dialogue is obviously dubbed), Gino Bechi and Tito Schipa billed before the regular cast (which includes an uncharacteristically benign Peter Gawthorne as an Irish priest and Annette Simmonds as a sleek blonde femme fatale), and the thoroughly misleading title promising something grittier.