"Although made between two of Alberto Cavalcanti's most celebrated film noirs (Went the Day Well? and Dead of Night), Champagne Charlie is one of his least typical films--though it has many ingredients common to Ealing films of the period. A comedy and unofficial history of the Edwardian music halls, it is also an excuse for most of the popular songs of the day (and a few new ones) and an exhilarating collaboration between Tommy Trinder and Stanley Holloway." William K. Everson