Film
Spare a Copper
United Kingdom- Director
- John Paddy Carstairs
- Year
- 1940
George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned destruction of the British battleship HMS Hercules. Framed by the villains and forced to go on the run, George sets out to clear his name with the aid of new girlfriend, Jane.
Top cast
George Formby
George Carter
Dorothy Hyson
Jane Gray
Bernard Lee
Jake
George Merritt
Brewster
John Warwick
Shaw
Bryan Herbert
Williams
Warburton Gamble
Sir Robert
John Turnbull
Inspector Richards
James Woodburn
Macdermott
Eliot Makeham
Fuller
Ellen Pollock
Lady Hardstaff
Charles Carson
Admiral
Aubrey Mallalieu
Manager Of Music Store
Edward Lexy
Night Watchman
Grace Arnold
Music Shop Customer
Cyril Chamberlain
Policeman
Jimmy Godden
Manager
Hal Gordon
Sergeant
Directed by
John Paddy Carstairs
Written by
Basil Dearden, Roger MacDougall, Austin Melford
Produced by
Michael Balcon