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Film: Spare and Copper (1941)

on BBC Two England

Starring George Formby, with Dorothy Hyson and George Merritt
Police war reservist George Carter can do nothing right. But when a sabotage gang try to blow up HMS Hercules, George proves that courage, and a little luck, can win the day
Contributors
Screenplay By: Roger MacDougall
Screenplay By: Austin Melford
Screenplay By: Basil Dearden
Produced By: Michael Balcon
Directed By: John Paddy Carstairs
George Carter: George Formby
Jane Grey: Dorothy Hyson
Shaw: John Warwick
Sir Robert Dyer: Warburon Gamble
Inspector Richards: John Turnbull
Edward Brewster: George Merritt
Lady Hardstaff: Ellen Pollock
Nightwatchman: Edward Lexy

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