Co-operette
Debroy Somers and his Band, comedian Hal Walters and the delightful dance troupe ‘The Six Co-Operettes’ all feature in this full-colour promotional film for the Co-Operative Wholesale Society. Watch with wonder as one sprightly young vegetable tears strips off the other in the bewildering but brilliant ‘carrot and onion dance’. Comedian Stanley Holloway was famous for his comic monologues but for reasons unknown, he never gets started here. The BFI’s copy of this extremely rare film cuts away just as it looks like he’s going begin his routine.
Top Billed Cast
Featured Crew
Harold Purcell
Story
Terence Egan
Script
Harry Waxman
Director of Photography
C. Beaumont
Editor
Harold Watson
Settings
Don Weeks
Assistant Director
Montgomery Tully
Director
Cecil Musk
Producer
Charles Poulton
Sound