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Back-Room Boy Reviews

  • 1942
  • 1 hr 22 mins
  • Drama
  • NR
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A time-signal worker is banished to Scotland, where he runs into a nest of spies. Arthur Askey, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Googie Withers. Mildly amusing farce. Directed by Herbert Mason.

Forced laughs as a dippy scientist discovers a Nazi spy living in a remote lighthouse on the coast of Scotland. Poor production values and an anemic story make for a sadly lacking film. (It's a wonder such a theme was selected with London being regularly bombed by the Germans at the time.)