Formby on film
Navy club steward with low medical grade is turned down by the navy, but gets in by mistake when a sailor friend borrows his only suit of clothes and he is obliged to wear the sailor's uniform. Following a case of mistaken identity he becomes involved with enemy agents based in a taxidermists shop, and foils their attempts to blow up a British warship. Brendan Ryan Leslie Halliwell's Film Guide A medically exempt waiter dons uniform and catches a ring of spies. Formula star comedy, too long and too familiar. After serving in the Home Guard in Get Cracking and in the Air Force in It's In The Air, George finally joins the Navy and entertains throughout with a good 'spy' plot which must have cheered up the beleagured Brit cinemagoers in the war years. Peter Pollard
Bell Bottom George
Bell Bottom George (working title: In The Navy) Columbia Produced by: Marcel Varnel & Ben Henry Writers: Peter Fraser, Edward Dryhurst, Richard Fisher, Peter Creswell, John L. Arthur Director: Marcel Varnel Trade Show: December 21 1943; Released on: January 10 1944 Run time 94 minutes Cast:  George Formby, Anne Firth, Reginald Purdell, P. Murray Hill, Eliot Makeham, Hugh Dempster, Peter Gawthorne SONGS: Swim Little Fish (Park/Parr-Davies) It Serves You Right (Box/Cox) If I Had A Girl Like You (Park/Parr-Davies) Bell Bottom George (Park/Parr-Davies)
formby on film
Navy club steward with low medical grade is turned down by the navy, but gets in by mistake when a sailor friend borrows his only suit of clothes and he is obliged to wear the sailor's uniform. Following a case of mistaken identity he becomes involved with enemy agents based in a taxidermists shop, and foils their attempts to blow up a British warship. Brendan Ryan Leslie Halliwell's Film Guide A medically exempt waiter dons uniform and catches a ring of spies. Formula star comedy, too long and too familiar. After serving in the Home Guard in Get Cracking and in the Air Force in It's In The Air, George finally joins the Navy and entertains throughout with a good 'spy' plot which must have cheered up the beleagured Brit cinemagoers in the war years. Peter Pollard
Bell Bottom George
Bell Bottom George (working title: In The Navy) Columbia Produced by: Marcel Varnel & Ben Henry Writers: Peter Fraser, Edward Dryhurst, Richard Fisher, Peter Creswell, John L. Arthur Director: Marcel Varnel Trade Show: December 21 1943; Released on: January 10 1944 Run time 94 minutes Cast:  George Formby, Anne Firth, Reginald Purdell, P. Murray Hill, Eliot Makeham, Hugh Dempster, Peter Gawthorne SONGS: Swim Little Fish (Park/Parr-Davies) It Serves You Right (Box/Cox) If I Had A Girl Like You (Park/Parr-Davies) Bell Bottom George (Park/Parr-Davies)