Sir Alfred Hitchcock is credited on-screen with "sketches and other interpolated items". Adrian Brunel, in his autobiography, "Nice Work", described how he originally shot "The Taming of the Shrew" spoof, only to have producer John Maxwell reject it for not being funny enough. Brunel states that Hitchcock was brought in to re-shoot the sketch. Hitchcock is believed to have directed the Gordon Harker sketch, "The Taming of the Shrew" spoof, and the "thriller" sketch with Jameson Thomas.
This "British equivalent of Hollywood's all-star revues", says the book "Film's Musical Moment", "is quite possibly the first ever to refer directly to television some six years before the BBC began regular television transmissions."
Considered to be Britain's first musical.