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Genre
  
Comedy

Duration
  

Language
  
English

5.5/10
IMDb

Director
  
Marcel Varnel

Music director
  
Harry Bidgood

Country
  
United Kingdom

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Release date
  
7 February 1944

Writer
  
Edward Dryhurst (story), Peter Fraser (story), John L. Arthur (contributions), Richard Fisher (idea), Peter Creswell (idea)

Initial release
  
February 7, 1944 (United Kingdom)

Cast
  
George Formby, Anne Firth, Reginald Purdell

Screenplay
  
Edward Dryhurst, Peter Fraser, John L. Arthur

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Bell-Bottom George is a 1943 black and white British comedy musical film, directed by Marcel Varnel, starring George Formby and Anne Firth. Another wartime flagwaver for Formby, it features the songs, "Swim Little Fish", "It Serves You Right", "If I Had A Girl Like You" and "Bell Bottom George." Future Carry On star Charles Hawtrey appears in a small role.

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Plot

Bell Bottom George movie scenes

George Blake (Formby) is a waiter with ambitions to join the Navy, although he's been rejected several times, because of a weak heart. But during an air raid he's mistaken for a sailor because he's wearing the clothes of a navy friend who's borrowed his to go to a Lock-in at a pub. George is spotted by military police who think he is AWOL and escort him back to Naval barracks. He impresses the sailors there with his songs and ukulele playing, and is recruited to play at the "Spick and Span" troop radio concert in London. Somehow, along the way, he stumbles on a group of Nazi spies using a taxidermists shop as a front, and foils their plot to blow up a British submarine, "The Firefly". He also impresses and wins the heart of Pat (Anne Firth), the Wren he's fallen for.

Sample gag

George is reduced to his underwear by the bad guys and complains he cannot walk around the streets like that as he'll be mistaken for Gandhi.

Cast

  • George Blake - George Formby
  • Pat - Anne Firth
  • Birdie Edwards - Reginald Purdell
  • Shapley - Peter Murray-Hill
  • Church - Manning Whiley
  • White - Hugh Dempster
  • Black - Dennis Wyndham
  • Jim Bennett - Charles Farrell
  • Johnson - Eliot Makeham
  • Admiral Sir William Coltham - Peter Gawthorne
  • Rita - Jane Welsh
  • Delivery Boy - Harry Fowler
  • Lt. Commander Carter - Ian Fleming
  • BBC Radio Man - Charles Hawtrey
  • Harry, the Barman - Frank Atkinson
  • Box office

    According to trade papers, the film was a success at the British box office in 1944.

    Critical reception

    Halliwell's Film Guide called it a "formula star comedy, too long and too familiar"; TV Guide said, "an overlong launching for an unseaworthy production"; while The Spinning Image said, "there are a few laughs to be had."

    References

    Bell-Bottom George Wikipedia
    Bell-Bottom George IMDbBell-Bottom George Rotten TomatoesBell-Bottom George themoviedb.org