Let George Do It

For the American radio drama, see Let George Do It (radio).

Let George Do It
Directed by	Marcel Varnel
Produced by	Michael Balcon Basil Dearden
Written by	Basil Dearden John Dighton Angus MacPhail Austin Melford
Starring	George Formby Phyllis Calvert Garry Marsh
Music by	Ernest Irving
Cinematography	Ronald Neame
Editing by	Ray Pitt
Release date(s)	1940
Running time	82 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Let George Do It is a 1940 British, black-and-white, comedy musical war film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring George Formby, with Ronald Shiner as the clarinetist. It was produced by Associated Talking Pictures and Ealing Studios.

Plot

At the start of World War II, musician George Hepplewhite (George Formby) gets on a boat thinking he is on his way to Blackpool, but arrives in Bergen, Norway instead, where he is mistaken for another ukulele player. He then meets the desk girl at the hotel, Mary Wilson (Phyllis Calvert), who is a British undercover agent and thinks he is one too. The duo manage to find and break a code that the Nazis are using to sink Allied shipping.

Cast

• George Formby as George Hepplewhite
• Phyllis Calvert as Mary Wilson
• Garry Marsh as Mendez
• Romney Brent as Slim Selwyn
• Bernard Lee as Oscar
• Coral Browne as Iris
• Helena Pickard as Oscar's wife
• Percy Walsh as Schwartz
• Ronald Shiner as the Clarinetist

External links

• Let George Do It at AllRovi
• Let George Do It at AllRovi
• Let George Do It at the BFI Film & TV Database
• Let George Do It at the Internet Movie Database