This was the follow up to Boots! Boots! from the previous year and another pleasant low brow low budget no plotter, right up my street in fact. I hadn't seen it in 10 years because my copy from a bad print puts me off, and not because it's a struggle for me with the amateurish acting and production.
George again playing his father's creation John Willie, is kicked off the dole after 4 years but then is immediately offered and accepts a detective job at his uncle's agency. He gets a few bizarre commissions, sings and plays a few nice songs, has a few routines some with Beryl and along with a very slight Edwardian type love story that's about it. Watch him spray and comb his hat! There are a few other Music Hall/Variety turns in here too, especially funny were Stan Pell and Stan Little providing an unusual entertainment with gusto for the kids in the schoolroom. George's banjolele made its first appearance on film in I Promised To Be Home At Nine O'Clock, my favourite song being If You Don't Want The Goods Don't Maul 'Em in the record shop singing along to a recording by a certain George Formby! Also in right at the end is a truncated version of With My Little Ukelele In My Hand 2 years previously Decca had had to withdraw released copies of the record after it was adjudged obscene what would they all think of todays incredibly high standard of lyric writing? Overall this was a better effort but next stop was Basil Dean and ATBP and much better efforts with 10 years at the top of the entertainment ladder.
It's a bit of a jolly artless potpourri, I like it but then again I'm not a serious person who needs everything to be Art.
George again playing his father's creation John Willie, is kicked off the dole after 4 years but then is immediately offered and accepts a detective job at his uncle's agency. He gets a few bizarre commissions, sings and plays a few nice songs, has a few routines some with Beryl and along with a very slight Edwardian type love story that's about it. Watch him spray and comb his hat! There are a few other Music Hall/Variety turns in here too, especially funny were Stan Pell and Stan Little providing an unusual entertainment with gusto for the kids in the schoolroom. George's banjolele made its first appearance on film in I Promised To Be Home At Nine O'Clock, my favourite song being If You Don't Want The Goods Don't Maul 'Em in the record shop singing along to a recording by a certain George Formby! Also in right at the end is a truncated version of With My Little Ukelele In My Hand 2 years previously Decca had had to withdraw released copies of the record after it was adjudged obscene what would they all think of todays incredibly high standard of lyric writing? Overall this was a better effort but next stop was Basil Dean and ATBP and much better efforts with 10 years at the top of the entertainment ladder.
It's a bit of a jolly artless potpourri, I like it but then again I'm not a serious person who needs everything to be Art.