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Let George Do It |
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Let George Do It - 1940 | 82mins | Comedy | B&WThe Production TeamDirector: Marcel
Varnel. Producer: Michael Balcon. Associate Producer: Basil Dearden. Script: John Dighton, Austin Melford, Angus Macphail and Basil Dearden. Cinematography: Ronald Neame. Art Direction: Wilfred Shingleton. Editing: Ray Pitt. Music: Ernest Irving. |
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The CastGeorge Formby - George Phyllis Calvert - Mary Garry Marsh - Mendez Romney Brent - Slim Bernard Lee - Nelson Lee Coral Brownr - Ivy |
Plot SynopsisGeorge 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. |
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