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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 ...
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.
The Shillingbury Blowers is a film directed by Val Guest with Trevor Howard, Robin Nedwell, Diane Keen, Jack Douglas .... Year: 1980. Original title: The Shillingbury Blowers.
The film is a simple, charming, gentle comedy drama centred around a village brass band. Trevor Howard plays rather beneath him in such slight fare. However Jack Douglas is excellent (and not as over the top as in the "Carry ons") John le Mesurier is also on form and looking far more healthy than in the last series of Dad's Army two years before.
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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.
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.
