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Let George Do It!
Let George Do It! (US: To Hell With Hitler) is a 1940 British black-and-white comedy musical war film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring George Formby. It was produced by Michael Balcon for Associated Talking Pictures and its successor, Ealing Studios, and distributed in the UK by ABFD. This was the first comedy from this studio to deal directly with the Second World War.
Plot
At the beginning of the Second World War, before Germany invaded Norway, a ukulele player in a British dance band playing at a Bergen hotel, is found shot dead during a radio broadcast of the band's show. It turns out he was a British agent keeping an eye on the band leader, Mark Mendes (Garry Marsh), who is suspected of being a German agent passing on information about British shipping to German U-boats, using a code concealed in the radio broadcasts.
More details
author | Basil Dearden |
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contentLocation | Norway |
director | Marcel Varnel |
editor | Ray Pitt |
events | World War II |
genre | comedy |
keywords | band leader banjulele begin bergen black out blackout blackpool british intelligence british navy dance band dover drug fly german agent new age pass radio broadcast royal navy ship suspect troop ship truth serum u-boat ukulele world war |
musicBy | Ernest Irving |
producer | Michael Balcon |
productionCompany | Associated Talking Pictures Ealing Studios |
publisher | Associated British Film Distributors |
theme | musical comedy propaganda spy spy comedy war |