Spare a Copper

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.

Date of release
1940-12-02
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 17m
Genres
Comedy
Director
John Paddy Carstairs

Casting

Interesting facts

Spare a Copper is a 1940 British black-and-white musical comedy war film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring George Formby, Dorothy Hyson and Bernard Lee. It was written by Basil Dearden, Roger MacDougall and Austin Melford and was produced by Associated Talking Pictures.

Production

Working on the film as associate producer and writer, this production was an early assignment for director Basil Dearden: "it was relatively easy to fit the Formby films into the new demands thrown up by the war: whereas George had typically had to overcome rogues and villains in his 1930s films, these were now simply replaced by spies and saboteurs".

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