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He Snoops to Conquer (1944)

He Snoops to Conquer poster
Directed by
Marcel Varnel
Genre
comedy film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 43m
Rating
8.1 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An odd job man stumbles into a scandal involving corruption in local politics and town planning. He gets entangled with scheming characters while trying to sort out the mess.

lightheartedplayfulbreezywhimsicalmildly chaoticold-fashionedcomedic

What happens

He Snoops to Conquer is a 1944 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel starring George Formby, Robertson Hare, Elizabeth Allan and Claude Bailey. It was written by Stephen Black, Norman Lee, Howard Irving Young and Langford Reed. Its plot involves an odd job man who becomes mixed up in corruption in politics and town planning. Its title is a pun on the theatre comedy She Stoops to Conquer. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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