Things Are Looking Up

This funny movie is written, performed, pitched and timed like a one-woman show for Cicely Courtneidge, with Max Miller and William Gargan as her stooges. Miss Courtneidge plays twins; one owns a circus and is general dogsbody because there's no money, and the other is a snobby schoolteacher who has just eloped; there's a third sister, so Miss Courtneidge pretends to be Miss Courtneidge as she goes through various big acts.

The general staginess is right in line with director Albert de Courville, who spent most of his career directing stage spectacles. It's not in the least cinematic, but it is a lot of fun.