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Classic comedy starring George Formby as a man who heads to London in search of fame only to find himself accused of murder. George Trotter (Formby) is convinced he will make it on stage and duly checks in at Ma Tubbs (Hilda Mundy)'s theatrical boarding house. Unfortunately for George, when the performer in the next room, acrobat Tom Driscoll (Dennis Wyndham), is found murdered, George is Chief Inspector Twyning (Ian Fleming)'s prime suspect. Can George find out the true identity of the killer, or will his attempts to solve the case only provide further evidence for the police to use against him?
1940s comedy starring George Formby as a junior council employee who gets caught up in a town planning dispute. There should be unity and happiness in the small town of Tangleton - the war has just been won and plans can be made to rebuild the town for a better future. However, when the council tea boy, George Gribble (Formby), is sent to conduct a survey on how the townspeople feel about the council's proposed post-war 'improvements' he is surprised to discover just how poor and unhappy the ordinary people of Tangleton are. When the bigwigs on the council decide to bury the survey and proceed with the plans anyway, George teams up with an eccentric inventor, Sir Timothy Strawbridge (Robertson Hare), and his charming daughter, Jane (Elizabeth Allan), to give a voice to the town's poor and downtrodden.
Wartime drama starring Patricia Roc. When shy working-class girl Celia Crowson (Roc) is called up for war service during World War Two, she dreams of a glamorous job in one of the services. But as a young unmarried woman, she is given a position in a local factory manufacturing aircraft parts. There she makes friends with other girls from very different social backgrounds, and begins a tentative relationship with a young airman, Fred Blake (Gordon Jackson).
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