Ship's Concert

The British Film Institute National Archive holds a collection of stills but no film or video materials. ==Plot==

Claude Stork and his wife Enid have won a holiday on a cruise ship. A steward discovers they have smuggled their cat aboard, but promises to keep quiet if Claude will organise a ship's concert to help stowaways Jack and Joyce (dancers) and Dickie (a singer) who are on board to try and impress producer Harry Bolton, who is holidaying on the ship. == Cast ==

• Claude Hulbert as Claude Stork • Joyce Kirby as Joyce • Henry Kendall as Harry Bolton • Enid Trevor as Enid Stork • Jack Donohue as Jack • Jack Heller as Dickie • Glen Alyn as Plasta Seene • Bruce Lester as Purser • Reginald Purdell as Reggie • George Galleon as Wireless Officer • Gibson Gowland as Purser • Patricia Burke as Geraldine Jackson • Albert le Fre as Privett ==Reception==

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The story is not very funny and the acting is frequently exaggerated. The film looks as if it had been made without much preparation or care. The best turn is Jack Donahue in his dance with his partner, Joyce Kirby." Kine Weekly wrote: "Variety show with a luxury liner setting, this film is very small fry. The story employed to link the acts together is weak emough, but no weaker than the majority of the turns. It to fly high but soon comes a purler for want of original ideas and talent. It is just another quota quickie, and a slipshod one at that." Picturegoer wrote: "The debut of Claude Hulbert and his wife, Enid Trevor, as a screen team is, I'm afraid, not an auspicious one. The film is a sort of variety show (or a variety show of sorts) set on a luxury liner with a hopelessly weak story to link the acts, which are weak enough themselves. The film falls between the stools of straight-forward vaudeville and screen musical comedy. Hulbert has little to do, but act as compére and whatever talent Joyce Kirby, Jack Donohue, and Jackie Heller may possess fails to shine through the amateurish presentation." ==References==