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Spare a Copper |
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Spare a Copper - 1940 | 77 mins | Comedy | B&WThe Production TeamDirector: John
Paddy Carstairs. Producer: Michael Balcon. Associate Producer: Basil Dearden. Script: Roger Macdougall, Basil Dearden and Austin Melford. Cinematography: Bryan Langley. Art Direction: Wilfred Shingleton. Editing: Ray Pitt. Music: Louis Levy. |
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The CastGeorge Formby - George Dorothy Hysen - Jane Bernard Lee - Jake John Warwick - Shaw George Merritt - Brewster John Turnbull - Insp. Richards Jack Melford - Dame |
Plot Synopsis Spare a Copper stars George Formby as a Merseyside special
constable on the trail of Nazi saboteurs attempting to destroy the battleship
Hercules on her first journey, with a pompous theatre owner and a shipyard
managing director's assistant as fifth columnists. The notion of unsuspected
German spies in respectable positions was to recur in more serious Ealing
films such as The Foreman Went to France and Went the Day Well? These
comedy films were judged as very good for public morale at the time while
delivering an important message. Extract© George Perry: Forever Ealing. |
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