Spare a Copper (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.
Spare a CopperComedy
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
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