Spare a Copper (1940)

7.0/10 • 77 min • Comedy

Overview

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.

Cast

George Formby

Dorothy Hyson

Bernard Lee

George Merritt

Bryan Herbert

Warburton Gamble

John Turnbull

Inspector Richards

Eliot Makeham

Ellen Pollock

Charles Carson

Aubrey Mallalieu

Manager Of Music Store

Grace Arnold

Music Shop Customer

Cyril Chamberlain

Policeman

Jack Melford

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