The Balloon Goes Up
1942 film
The Balloon Goes Up is a 1942 British, black-and-white, comedy, musical, war film, directed by Redd Davis and starring Ronald Shiner, Ethel Revnell, Gracie West, Donald Peers and Elsie Wagstaff.[1] It was produced by New Realm Pictures.
Synopsis
The title refers to the 'Balloon Going Up', a popular euphemism for an anticipated German invasion of Britain during the Second World War. This musical-comedy film is a collection of Music Hall gags and radio one-line jokes. It is also an anti-Nazi war film.[2]
The term was also used by members of the US military up to the 1990s as a euphemism for World War Three starting with the Soviet Union.
References
External links
- The Balloon Goes Up at AllMovie
- The Balloon Goes Up at the British Film Institute[better source needed]
- The Balloon Goes Up at IMDb
- v
- t
- e
Films directed by Redd Davis
- The Spare Room (1932)
- Here's George (1932)
- Excess Baggage (1933)
- The Umbrella (1933)
- The Medicine Man (1933)
- Send 'em Back Half Dead (1933)
- Ask Beccles (1933)
- Seeing Is Believing (1934)
- The Girl in the Flat (1934)
- Easy Money (1934)
- Say It with Diamonds (1935)
- On Top of the World (1936)
- Excuse My Glove (1936)
- King of the Castle (1936)
- Underneath the Arches (1937)
- Variety Hour (1937)
- Sing as You Swing (1937)
- Calling All Ma's (1937)
- Special Edition (1938)
- Anything to Declare? (1938)
- Discoveries (1939)
- That's the Ticket (1940)
- The Balloon Goes Up (1942)
 | This article related to a British film of the 1940s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e
 | This article about a musical comedy film is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e
 | This article about a film on World War II is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e
