Spare a Copper (1940)
December 2, 1940Release Date
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Cast & Crew.

George Formby
George Carter

Dorothy Hyson
Jane Gray

Bernard Lee
Jake

George Merritt
Brewster

John Warwick
Shaw

Bryan Herbert
Williams

Warburton Gamble
Sir Robert

John Turnbull
Inspector Richards

James Woodburn
Macdermott

Eliot Makeham
Fuller

Ellen Pollock
Lady Hardstaff

Charles Carson
Admiral

Aubrey Mallalieu
Manager Of Music Store

Edward Lexy
Night Watchman

Grace Arnold
Music Shop Customer

Cyril Chamberlain
Policeman

Jimmy Godden
Manager

Hal Gordon
Sergeant

Laurence Kitchin
Hiker

Jack Melford
Dame

Beryl Reid
Minor role

Johnnie Schofield
Policeman

Bill Shine
Minor Role

Ronald Shiner
Piano Mover
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Spare a Copper is a 1940 British black-and-white musical comedy war film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring George Formby, Dorothy Hyson and Bernard Lee. It was produced by Associated Talking Pictures. It is also known as Call a Cop. The film features the songs, "I'm the Ukulele Man", "On the Beat", "I Wish I Was Back on the Farm" and "I'm Shy". Beryl Reid makes her film debut in an uncredited role, while Ronald Shiner appears similarly uncredited, in the role of the Piano Mover and Tuner.
Working on the film as associate producer and writer, this production was an early assignment for director Basil Dearden: "it was relatively easy to fit the Formby films into the new demands thrown up by the war: whereas George had typically had to overcome rogues and villains in his 1930s films, these were now simply replaced by spies and saboteurs".
The film title is a pun, using the colloquial term "copper" meaning a policeman, with the longer phrase "spare a copper" used by beggars - meaning can you spare a penny (which I might have).
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