A Czech political exile and a washed-up music hall comedian form an unlikely partnership to try and save a town's concert hall from the planners, businessmen, and bureaucrats.
The community of a small British town unite, in opposition to their local government authority, to keep open their town music hall, against the competing interests of a museum body and a plastics manufacturing firm. A traveling musical troupe headed by Timmy Tiverton (Edward Rigby) and Hope Ollerton (Patricia Roc) team up with a European piano professor (an early appearance from Alastair Sim) who is on the run from the immigration authorities. Together they influence the local magistrate - a local wealthy landowner (Fred Emney) to press their case for allowing the town to retain the music license of the hall thereby providing a venue for future musical performances.
