Bell-Bottom George – 1944 | 97 mins | Comedy | B&W

Plot Synopsis

Wartime comedy flag-waver about a bumbling waiter who masquerades as a sailor. A tired and overlong comedy shot as Formby’s career slipped into decline, not helped here by a weak supporting cast including Anne Firth and Reginald Purdell.

An enemy spy ring is attempting to destroy the new Firefly class of submarine hunter during its sea trials. Meanwhile, bumbling waiter George Blake (George Formby), rejected three times by the Navy, finally ‘joins’ the services after being mistaken for a sailor during an air raid. George decides to hide out in the Sea Horse restaurant, but when a dog steals his hat, the bogus sailor walks straight into a Porthampton taxidermy shop that is being used as a front by Nazi spies. George subsequently travels to Broadcasting House in London to appear on the Spick and Span radio show, but on the train home he accidentally encounters the enemy agents.