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S1.E6 ∙ The Shillingbury Daydream. Sun, Jun 21, 1981. Jake has the flu, and is taking pills. He drifts off and has silly dreams of fox hunts, council widening the street and winning the OBE for being the most helpful man in the village. He even dreams of going to Buckingham palace and having his band competing with the Royal Parade.
Written by CinemaSerf on November 10, 2022. A small English village is in turmoil with the arrival of a pop star and his wife. He soon becomes the conductor of the local brass band after the previous conductor is criticized for the false notes played by the brass band.
21 giu 2011 · The Shillingbury Blowers (aka …And The Band Played On ) is set in Shillingbury, in reality Aldbury. Shillingbury has a brass band, run by an old man called Saltie (Trevor Howard). At a parish council meeting the band comes in for some criticism and Saltie resigns. Unfortunately Peter Higgins (Robin Nedwell), a music teacher by profession and ...
Genre: Comedy. Year: 1979. Running time: 82 minutes. Territory: Worldwide. Studio: ITV. Cast: Robin Nedwell, Diane Keen, Trevor Howard. Pop's discordant notes upset a rural brass band. The arrival of a pop musician (Robin Nedwell) and his wife (Diane Keen), upsets the status quo in the village of Shillingbury.
Of course, by Ealing's admirably high standards, The Shillingbury Blowers is not only tedious and long-winded, but it lacks the wit, the sharpness, and ingratiating playing that we all expect of an Ealing farce. But on its own humble, one-joke level, "The Blowers" does offer fair entertainment. Val Guest's direction is more TV style than Ealing ...
Includes the feature-length TV pilot The Shillingbury Blowers. 2 discs. Comedy. Colour. Years: 1980–81. Running time over 6hrs. Cast: Robin Nedwell, Diane Keen, Lionel Jeffries, Bernard Cribbins, Joe Black, John Le Mesurier, Sam Kydd, Gwen Watford, Jack Douglas, Nigel Lambert, Patrick Newell, Diana King and Trevor Howard.
The only 1940s film directed by him that I’ve seen was a dire B Movie hybrid of whodunit and musical; the only later film I’ve seen is the dreadful The Shillingbury Blowers. A TV movie and pilot for a short TV series…I’ve no memory of it but I wasn’t watching much TV in the early 1980s.
