Back Room Boy (1942) DVD

Price:

$8.99

SKU:

M022020201004

Availability:

In Stock

Product Description

Back Room Boy (1942)

Director:

Herbert Mason

Writers:

J.O.C. Orton (original story and screenplay), Val Guest (original story and screenplay), Marriott Edgar

Stars:

Arthur Askey, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Googie Withers, Vera Frances, Joyce Howard

British radio funster Arthur Askey inherits British film comedian Will Hay's longtime stooges Moore Marriot and Graham Moffatt in Back Room Boy. Big-Hearted Askey plays a cuckoo scientist seeking peace and quiet in a Scottish lighthouse. No such luck: the house is being used as a rendezvous for Nazi spies. Beyond the presence of Marriott and Moffatt, one gets the impression that Back Room Boy was originally intended as a Will Hay vehicle, inasmuch as Hay's longtime scripters Val Guest and Marriot Edgar wrote the yarn. Young Googie Withers fares well in an a thankless leading-lady assignment.