This very British reply to Hollywood's popular revues and follies of the early sound era delightfully captures the spirit of the British music hall. If it seems to lack any one cinematic style, it is largely because project director Adrian Brunel's elaborately worked-out schemes and montage sequences ended up on the cutting-room floor and some portions of the film were reshot. This is how Alfred Hitchcock came to direct the Taming of the Shrew burlesque, originally shot by Brunel. Hitchcock is also responsible for the "Thriller" episode, and connecting-scenes of Gordon Harker trying to capture the revues on a home-made television set (remember this is 1930) with little success. But more than anything Elstree Calling is a stage for a large cast of British performers whose names would become household words, including Will Fyffe, Jack Hulbert, Lily Morris, Anna May Wong, Cicely Courtneidge, and Teddy Brown.