The George Formby Film Collection [DVD] [2009]

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A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders portraits of some prominent local females are sold without his knowledge to an advertising agency and are published with nude bodies added to them.

Keep Fit (1937)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 13 January 2009 . Retrieved 10 March 2014.The performer has also been named as George Bass. There were several Formby Sr tribute acts in operation at the time. [6] [20] McFarlane, Brian. "Formby, George (1904–1961)". Screenonline. British Film Institute . Retrieved 28 May 2014. Terry-Thomas; Daum, Terry (1990). Terry-Thomas Tells Tales. London: Robson Books. ISBN 978-0-86051-662-0.

In a 1940 issue, Monthly Film Bulletin called it "a good Formby film...With a better story than most". [3] Richards, Jeffrey (2010). The Age of the Dream Palace: Cinema and Society in 1930s Britain. London: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84885-122-1.Other bikes that were used include a 350cc Ariel that had been flown to the Isle of Man, partly dismantled, in a de Havilland Dragon Rapide. [5] Stunts [ edit ] The Times critic wrote in 1940: "the structure of Mr. George Formby's films do not alter very much, and the same blue-print that has done serviceable work in the past was taken out of its drawer for Spare a Copper". [3] ENSA had been formed in 1938, [76] although the formation was actually a re-formation, as the organisation had been active during the First World War. [77]