Let George Do It – 1940 | 82mins | Comedy | B&W

Plot Synopsis

George Formby‘s Ealing films fell into different hands, two were directed by Marcel Varnel who, although French-born, had a remarkable talent for British comedy, and had made films for Will Hay, the Crazy Gang, and the very popular radio comedy team of Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch. His lasting masterpiece was the film he made with Will Hay in 1937, Oh Mr Porter!. Let George Do It, Varnel’s first Formby film which opened in July 1940, was also the first Ealing comedy to use the war as a background. George, a member of the Dinkie Doo Concert Party, finds himself on a boat to Bergen, Norway, by mistake, in order to replace a British intelligence man. Unmasking a spy ring (it is still Norway’s pre-invasion period), he escapes, aided by Phyllis Calvert as a British spy.

Extract© George Perry: Forever Ealing.