The Good Companions (1957 film)
The Good Companions is a 1957 British musical film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Eric Portman and Celia Johnson.The story of the “Dinky Doos”, a down-at-heel touring concert party, where the arrival of new members helps to improve the company’s luck.B. Priestiey's slightly dated original has been superficially modernised with a few "pop" songs (including a painful title number), intermittent attempts at an American musical style, and several references to television.The director appears to have shot the majority of sequences from a limited number of angles and intercut the result.The musical numbers, including the self-consciously lavish finale, are largely pseudo-Hollywood imitations.