It's a Wonderful World

Val Guest's black & white dramas of the fifties invariably outclassed his films in colour, of which this is probably the most tolerable.

In order to compensate for bandleader Ted Heath's woodenness playing himself the rest of the film is rather frantically farcical; with a mildly satirical plot making the usual digs at long-haired fuddy duddies and Harold Lang playing an effete music critic.

George Cole overacts wildly, a plot strand resembles Lt. Kije and above all there's a bizarre dream sequence. All in Spectascope and Technicolor to remind you that you wouldn't get any of this on TV.