Spare a Copper

Spare a Copper is a 1940 British, black-and-white, musical comedy war film, directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Ronald Shiner, as the Piano Mover and Tuner, and George Formby. It was produced by Associated Talking Pictures. It is also known as Call a Cop.

Synopsis

Formby plays a slightly bumbling War Reservist police officer called George Carter who aspires to become a member of the flying squad. The film is set in Merseyside where the battleship HMS Hercules is being built. A group of saboteurs are planning to destroy HMS Hercules by blowing it up. George manages to foil the saboteurs' attempts to destroy HMS Hercules, saving the battleship from being blown up by saboteurs. One of the saboteurs, called "Jake", is played by Bernard Lee.

Cast

• George Formby as George
• Dorothy Hyson as Jane
• Bernard Lee as Jake
• John Warwick as Shaw
• Warburton Gamble as Sir Robert Dyer
• John Turnbull as Inspector Richards
• George Merritt as Brewster
• Eliot Makeham as Fuller
• Ellen Pollock as Lady Hardstaff
• Edward Lexy as Night watchman
• Jack Melford as Dame
• Hal Gordon as Sergeant
• Jimmy Godden as Manager
• Grace Arnold as Music shop customer
• Charles Carson as Admiral

External links

• Spare a Copper at AllRovi
• Spare a Copper at the BFI Film & TV Database
• Spare a Copper at the Internet Movie Database