Let George Do It

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Let George Do It is a 1940 wartime British comedy film starring George Formby and widely recognised as his best. 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 ukelele player. He then meets the desk girl at the hotel, Mary Wilson (Phyllis Calvert), who is a British undercover agent and thinks he... more
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  • 1940

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  • 82 min (49 hs )

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Marcel Varnel

Marcel Varnel (16 October 1894 - 13 July 1947) was a film director. He was born Marcel Hyacinth le Bozec in Paris, France. Varnel started his working life on the Paris stage but soon became a director of musical comedies. In 1925 he moved to New York working as director in several Broadway...

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