Band Waggon (film)

Band Waggon is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch and Moore Marriott. It was based on the BBC radio show Band Waggon.

While driving home that evening one of the tyres on Pilkingtons car gets a puncture from broken glass lying on the road. It has been put there by the owners of the JackintheBox restaurant, who hope their cabaret act will be given a contract with the BBC and have so far failed to gain an audition. Pilkington sits unwittingly through their act, including singers Jack Hylton and Patricia Kirkwood, barely noticing it while he reads the newspaper. When he discovers that they have caused his puncture, he storms off in anger.Meanwhile, Askey and Murdoch have found themselves in the countryside. Needing somewhere to live they go to a local estate agent hoping to pick up a cheap cottage. Instead they are offered a castle forrent, which the owner is trying to get off his hands as it is haunted. After they settle down in the castle they begin to experience a number of sinister happenings which occur despite the estate agents insistence that there is a perfectly natural explanation for everything. When they encounter Jasper Blackfang, a ghost who claims to haunt the place, they flee and take shelter at the nearby Jackinthe Box restaurant. ........

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