Back-Room Boy (1942)
1h 22m
Running Time
April 15, 1942Release Date
Plot.
Jilted by his fiancee, Arthur Pilbeam gets a job as far away from women as possible. Alone in a lighthouse, he soon finds that 12 other people end up living on the tiny island. Thirteen is an unlucky number; and one-by-one they disappear ..
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Cast & Crew.
Arthur Askey
Arthur Pilbeam
Moore Marriott
Jerry
Graham Moffatt
Albert
Googie Withers
Bobbie
Vera Frances
Jane
Joyce Howard
Betty
John Salew
Steve Mason
George Merritt
Uncle
Eileen Bennett
Bit Player
Philip Friend
Damon Ravel
Aubrey Mallalieu
West
D.J. Williams
McIntyre
Herbert Mason
Director
J.O.C. Orton
Original Story / Screenplay
Walter W. Murton
Art Direction
John Draper
Second Unit
Nora Bentley
Hairstylist
Hans May
Original Music Composer
Edward Black
Producer
Val Guest
Original Story / Screenplay
Eric Reed
Boom Operator
Marriott Edgar
Original Story / Screenplay
Alf Keating
Second Unit
Len Garde
Makeup Artist
R. E. Dearing
Editor
Maurice Ostrer
Production Supervisor
Jack Swinburne
Production Manager
Charles Wheeler
Boom Operator
William McLeod
Camera Operator
Jack Asher
Camera Operator
John Shirley
Editorial Services
Charles Saunders
Editorial Services
Louis Levy
Musical
Jack E. Cox
Director of Photography
B. C. Sewell
Sound Supervisor
Hilda Collins
Wardrobe Designer
Details.
This Movie Is About.
island
radio
metereologist
lighthouse
mermaid
curse
storm
model
rope bridge
weather report
ship wrecked
Wiki.
Back-Room Boy is a 1942 British comedy mystery film directed by Herbert Mason, produced by Edward Black for Gainsborough Pictures and distributed by General Film Distributors. The cast includes Arthur Askey, Googie Withers, Graham Moffatt and Moore Marriott. It marked the film debut of Vera Frances. The original story was written by J.O.C. Orton, Marriott Edgar and Val Guest. A man from the Met Office is sent to a lighthouse on a remote Scottish island to monitor the weather, where he hopes to escape from women, but soon finds the island overrun by them.
Back-Room Boy was released to cinemas in the United Kingdom on 17 April 1942.
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