Get Cracking (1943)

Directed by

Marcel Varnel

Genre

war film, propaganda film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 36m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A British comedian joins the Home Guard during World War Two. He gets into various humorous situations while trying to do his part for the war effort.

lightheartedcomedicupbeatwartimecheerfulfast-pacedpatrioticplayful

What happens

Get Cracking is a 1943 British comedy war film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring George Formby, with Dinah Sheridan and Ronald Shiner. It was written by Edward Dryhurst, L. Du Garde Peach, Michael Vaughan and John L. Arthur. It was produced by Varnel and Ben Henry for Columbia (British) Productions, a subsidiary of the American studio. The film opens like a World War Two documentary with a narrator explaining the action, before becoming a more traditional Formby vehicle. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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