Come On George

George Formby - George
Pat Kirkwood - Ann Johnson
Joss Ambler - Sir Charles Bailey
Meriel Forbesv - Monica Bailey
Cyril Raymond - Jimmy Taylor
George Carney - Police Constable

Come On George was Anthony Kimmins last Ealing film before he rejoined the Royal Navy, becoming a captain on the staff of the Director of Naval Intelligence. Completed by the outbreak of war the George Formby comedy vehicle, Come On George, in which the hare-brained hero finds himself as a jockey with a terrible mount that has already savaged three former riders, and only gets over his fear by recourse to a quack brain specialist. Characteristically, the fearless Formby, who had once been a stable apprentice, eschewed doubles and did the riding himself. (His little-known debut in films had been as a child, twenty years before Boots, Boots, in By the Shortest of Heads, a racing drama made by Ealing's pioneer, Will Barker.)

Kimmins never returned to Ealing. After the war he took up an offer from Korda and was responsible for several films of integrity, such as Mine Own Executioner, and also the legendarily abysmal Bonnie Prince Charlie, for which debacle the producer was more responsible than the hapless director.
Extract© George Perry: Forever Ealing.