Charley Moon

Charley Moon is a 1956 British musical film directed by Guy Hamilton and starring Max Bygraves, Dennis Price and Shirley Eaton.

Charley Moon is a country boy who, after a national service stint in the army, becomes a small-time music-hall performer.

Initially successful, Moon soon decides that showbiz is a facile occupation, and he longs to return to his childhood home.

The numbers are very casually staged and derive – distantly – from the more intimate style of the early 'thirties or the "advanced" realist-stylised manner of the late 'forties.

The great misfortune of the whole thing is that Max Bygraves is most sympathetic and really talented, and that the story, fairly done, might have had genuine charm.