Bees in Paradise

Bees in Paradise is a 1944 British musical comedy film directed by Val Guest and starring Arthur Askey, Anne Shelton and Peter Graves. It was produced by Edward Black at Gainsborough Pictures. Cowritten by director Val Guest and comic Marriott Edgar, who wrote for Will Hay and the Crazy Gang and composed some of Stanley Holloways famous monologues this is a lesser known Askey vehicle.

The Queen of Paradise Island, a tiny uncharted isle somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean northwest of Freetown, Sierra Leone, is not happy. The town crier of the allfemale hivelike colony around two thousand strong has just reported that there have only been two births within the last eighteen months and both of them were boys. As the Queen points out to Jani, her Minister of Propaganda the only thing worse than boys is men. She demands more marriages, even going as far to think about passing conscription into law. However, Jani points out that the drones which is how the inhabitants of this island refer to men in captivity are not willing to marry any of the beautiful island women, because as soon as the twomonth honeymoon is over the bridegrooms are executed.An Allied bomber plane is in trouble overhead. The ferry pilot, Peter Lovell, struggles to keep control while Arthur Tucker is suffering from airsickness. The four aircrew bail out and parachute down on Paradise Island. The crew are quickly captured by the native woman and Rouna, the colonys leading journalist, sets her eye on the diminutive Arthur Tucker mostly due to her long repressed boycraziness. ........

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