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Spare a Copper

7.019401h 17mMovieComedy

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…

DirectorJohn Paddy Carstairs
WritersBasil Dearden·Roger MacDougall
ProducerMichael Balcon

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Cast · Directed by John Paddy Carstairs

GFGeorge Formby
George Formby
George Carter
DHDorothy Hyson
Dorothy Hyson
Jane Gray
BLBernard Lee
Bernard Lee
Jake
GMGeorge Merritt
George Merritt
Brewster
JW
John Warwick
Shaw
BHBryan Herbert
Bryan Herbert
Williams
WGWarburton Gamble
Warburton Gamble
Sir Robert
JTJohn Turnbull
John Turnbull
Inspector Richards
JW
James Woodburn
Macdermott
EMEliot Makeham
Eliot Makeham
Fuller
EPEllen Pollock
Ellen Pollock
Lady Hardstaff
CCCharles Carson
Charles Carson
Admiral

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