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The George Formby Film Collection [DVD] [2009]

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An amateur performer in London stays with other entertainers in a hotel, and becomes a murder suspect when an Australian acrobat is killed in the next room. An incompetent apprentice sound engineer passes off an established performer's song as his own and becomes an overnight star. Let George Do It (1949)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 13 January 2009 . Retrieved 10 March 2014. A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders portraits of some prominent local females are sold without his knowledge to an advertising agency and are published with nude bodies added to them. A ukulele player is mistaken for a British spy and unwittingly foils a plot by German intelligence agents.

The saboteurs include fellow police officers who plan to shoot Formby in a remote area but he escapes in a motorised toy car. A crazy chase ensues ending in Formby going round and round a wall of death before foiling the plot. It's in the Air (1938)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 13 January 2009 . Retrieved 10 March 2014. George Formby, Sr., "Standing on the Corner of the Street"; his luxury item was his first ukulele. [69] [70] While on leave from the Irish Guards, Harry Parr-Davies was given just ten days to complete the music for the film before returning to service. [106]Formby's featured songs are They Laughed When I Started to Play (Formby/Cliffe), Talking to the Moon About You (Day), Delivering the Morning Milk (Formby/Gifford/Cliffe) and Andy the Handy Man, written by Eddie Latta. [2] Plot summary [ edit ] The film title is a pun, using the colloquial term "copper" meaning a policeman, with the longer phrase "spare a copper" used by beggars - meaning can you spare a penny (which I might have). With Formby's growing success on stage, Beryl decided it was time for him to move into films. In 1934 she approached the producer Basil Dean, the head of Associated Talking Pictures (ATP). Although he expressed an interest in Formby, he did not like the associated demands from Beryl. She also met the representative of Warner Bros. in the UK, Irving Asher, who was dismissive, saying that Formby was "too stupid to play the bad guy and too ugly to play the hero". Three weeks later Formby was approached by John E. Blakeley of Blakeley's Productions, who offered him a one-film deal. [40]

Leng, Simon (2003). While My Guitar Gently Weeps: The Music of George Harrison. New York: Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 978-1-4234-0609-9. Halliwell's Film Guide comments, "one of the last good Formby comedies, with everything percolating as it should". [1]Smart, Sue; Bothway Howard, Richard (2011). It's Turned Out Nice Again!: The Authorized Biography of the Two George Formbys, Father and Son. Ely, Cambridgeshire: Melrose Books. ISBN 978-1-907732-59-1. Richards, Jeffrey (2004). "Formby, George [ real name George Hoy Booth]". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (onlineed.). Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/33205. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) Britain's Most Dangerous Songs: Listen to the Banned. BBC Four. 11 July 2014 . Retrieved 15 August 2014. The success of the pictures led Dean to offer Formby a seven-year contract with ATP, which resulted in the production of 11 films, [14] although Dean's fellow producer, Michael Balcon, considered Formby to be "an odd and not particularly loveable character". [46] The first film from the deal was released in 1935. No Limit features Formby as an entrant in the Isle of Man annual Tourist Trophy (TT) motorcycle race. Monty Banks directed, and Florence Desmond took the female lead. [47] [f] According to Richards, Dean did not try "to play down Formby's Lancashire character" for the film, and employed Walter Greenwood, the Salford-born author of the 1933 novel Love on the Dole, as the scriptwriter. [1] Filming was troubled, with Beryl being difficult to everyone present. The writer Matthew Sweet describes the set as "a battleground" because of her actions, and Banks unsuccessfully requested that Dean bar Beryl from the studio. [48] The Observer thought that parts of No Limit were "pretty dull stuff", but the race footage was "shot and cut to a maximum of excitement". Regarding the star of the film, the reviewer thought that "our Lancashire George is a grand lad; he can gag and clown, play the banjo and sing with authority... Still and all, he doesn't do too bad." [49] The film was so popular it was reissued in 1938, 1946 and 1957. [43] Terry-Thomas; Daum, Terry (1990). Terry-Thomas Tells Tales. London: Robson Books. ISBN 978-0-86051-662-0.

Off the Dole (1935)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 18 September 2010 . Retrieved 10 March 2014. Pratt, Vic. "Let George Do It! (1940)". Screenonline. British Film Institute . Retrieved 27 May 2014. Come On George! (1939)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 13 January 2009 . Retrieved 10 March 2014. An employee at an underwear factory struggles to keep both his modern wife and his battle-axe mother in domestic bliss. Riding Around on a Rainbow". Performed by George Formby and Florence Desmond and written by Fred E. CliffeNapper, Lawrence. "Dean, Basil (1888–1978)". Screenonline. British Film Institute . Retrieved 19 June 2014. An amateur racing driver unexpectedly wins the Isle of Man's Tourist Trophy and the heart of a charm-school actress.

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