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2026 · Action · Comedy
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Film / 1940
Spare a Copper
Directed by
John Paddy Carstairs
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.
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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.
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Cast
George FormbyGeorge Carter
Dorothy HysonJane Gray
Bernard LeeJake
George MerrittBrewster
John WarwickShaw
Bryan HerbertWilliams
Warburton GambleSir Robert
John TurnbullInspector Richards
James WoodburnMacdermott
Eliot MakehamFuller
Ellen PollockLady Hardstaff
Charles CarsonAdmiral
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Aubrey MallalieuManager Of Music Store
Edward LexyNight Watchman
Grace ArnoldMusic Shop Customer
Cyril ChamberlainPoliceman
Jimmy GoddenManager
Hal GordonSergeant
Laurence KitchinHiker
Jack MelfordDame
Beryl ReidMinor role
Johnnie SchofieldPoliceman
Bill ShineMinor Role
Ronald ShinerPiano Mover
Jack VyvyanPolice Sergeant
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