Charley Moon

Charley Moon is a 1956 British film directed by Guy Hamilton. It stars Max Bygraves, Dennis Price and Shirley Eaton. Reviewer Charlie Mellor wrote of this film: "Director Guy Hamilton’s Charley Moon is a pleasant, if simple-minded movie, designed as a vehicle for entertainer Max Bygraves, clearly aimed at children and the ‘family’ audience. It never shies away from milking easy sentiment. Its main interest now is that much of it is set in the los... more

Charley Moon is a 1956 British film directed by Guy Hamilton. It stars Max Bygraves, Dennis Price and Shirley Eaton. Reviewer Charlie Mellor wrote of this film: "Director Guy Hamilton’s Charley Moon is a pleasant, if simple-minded movie, designed as a vehicle for entertainer Max Bygraves, clearly aimed at children and the ‘family’ audience. It never shies away from milking easy sentiment. Its main interest now is that much of it is set in the lost world of 1950s provincial variety theatres (theatrical digs, with signs outside saying "Actors Taken In", touring nude shows) and 1950’s West End revues. This aspect of the film is rather good, albeit with some rather overdone satire at the expense of theatrical agents (the Solly Silvers character) and managers, ‘false’ West End people and values, epitomised in the Mary Minton character played by real Wet End star Florence Desmond, and the extended Queens Theatre musical sequence ‘The Fabulous Golden Boy’ performed by Max and the dancers, in... less