This early Michael Winner film is not so much a movie, more a collage of light and not so time relevant musical comedy interludes and sketches. Most of the cameos are from people I don't recognise or have never heard of given I was born 18 years after the film's release date, but the plethora of names appearing as themselves would probably be more relevant to someone a generation above me, or to someone viewing this at its time of release.
I remember the Jack Jackson show very well and this film reflects his surreal sense of humour.Pre war Jackson led the dance band at the Dorchester Hotel.
This review is only the sixth one for this film probably due to not all that many people having seen it and most have been unkind to it. It could drive viewers "up the wall" but if this had been an early film made by the Monty Python team it would be getting rave reviews as an early MP classic.
Thus is an old joke updated to the era of juke boxes and espresso bars, as delivered by a boyishly young Craig Douglas.Michael Winner was almost the same age when he directed this nonsense as Orson Welles (who he would be directing a few years later in 'I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname') when Welles made 'Citizen Kane'.
CLIMB UP THE WALL is very much a second-rate production seemingly designed to fill space more than anything. It's notable only for being an early film in the career of the notorious Michael Winner, not that it contains any of his trademark style.
I caught this on TV recently and I cannot remember it when it was released (thank goodness). I was 15 in 1960 and very much into pop music but this film was even dated by then.
