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Get Cracking Reviews

  • 1943
  • Comedy
  • NR
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Get Cracking is a 1943 British comedy war film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Dinah Sheridan, Ronald Shiner and George Formby. It was produced by Marcel Varnel, Ben Henry and Columbia (British) Productions. This comedy explores the wayward rivalry between mechanic and Home Guard Lance Corporal George Singleton (George Formby) and an adversary also in the Home Guard (Ronald Shiner). When the rival Home Guard units of Major Wallop and Minor Wallop are sent on battle manoeuvres, George Si

Formby, a crazy mechanic, becomes the village hero when he defeats the town's neighboring rival in a Home Guard exercise. The other villagers get their hands on a valuable army weapon, but Formby recaptures it by turning a truck into a tank, easily defeating the opponent. Farfetched but full of laughs.