Light Up the Sky! (film)
(also known as Touch it Light; U.S. title: Skywatch) is a 1960 British comedy drama film directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Ian Carmichael, Tommy Steele and Benny Hill.In his absence Lance Bombardier Tomlinson is in charge, but he struggles to maintain some kind of order and he frequently turns a blind eye to the lack of discipline and even their local thieving.Camp comic Syd McGaffey tries to keep up with the romantic antics of his younger brother Eric, who comes back from a short leave and announces that he has got married.[13] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "No doubt Army life on a home station is a mixture of grim "humour, farce and sentiment, but Lewis Gilbert should have taken the title of the original play Touch It Light more literally.Benny Hill and Sydney Tafler emerge as sympathetic characters, but the camaraderie which the film purports to show is too often lost in patronising officer-and-men relationships, sketchy characterisation and sheer, crude mawkishness.[17] TV Guide called it "pointless", but observed Benny Hill "exhibits the form that would later make him a popular television star in both the UK and US" and admitted to finding the film "occasionally amusing".