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Marcel Varnel
Filmography
Marcel Varnel - filmography
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I Didn't Do It
on DVD
(1945)
Starring: George Formby, Billy Caryll, Hilda Mundy
Director: Marcel Varnel
Certificate: 
George Formby, a Londoner with the urge to get in front of the footlights, is boarding in a hotel with a number of theatrical personalities. Soon after he unpacks his bags, an Australian acrobat is killed. Blame is placed at Formby's doorstep when the corpse is found in the room next to his.
 
60%
from 17 members
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He Snoops To Conquer
on DVD
(1944)
Starring: George Formby, Robertson Hare, Elizabeth Allan
Director: Marcel Varnel
Certificate: 
A pair of reporters from London come to investigate possible corruption in a town's postwar plans and are helped out by the unwitting handyman who is ordered to destroy some important housing forms to cover up the political scheming. An accident sends these forms flying in the wind.
50%
from 17 members
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Bell-Bottom George
on DVD
(1943)
Starring: George Formby, Anne Firth, Reginald Purdell
Director: Marcel Varnel
Certificate:
Navy club steward with low medical grade is turned down by the navy, but gets in by mistake when a sailor friend borrows his only suit of clothes and he is obliged to wear the sailor's uniform. Following a case of mistaken identity he becomes involved with enemy agents based in a taxidermists shop, ..read more »
67%
from 36 members
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King Arthur Was A Gentleman
on DVD
(1942)
Starring: Evelyn Dall, Peter Graves, Ronald Shiner
Director: Marcel Varnel
Certificate:
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Arthur Askey joins the army and is stationed in the legendary realm once ruled by King Arthur. When he chances upon an old sword he believes it once belonged to the king and thinks he can do no wrong.
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from 55 members
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Much Too Shy
on DVD
(1942)
Starring: George Formby, Joss Ambler, Kathleen Harrison
Director: Marcel Varnel
Certificate:
George Formby plays a handyman with a knack for handling the paint brush, a talent he pursues by painting portraits of heads minus the body because he lacks the boldness to have his models pose nude. In a commercial art class, fellow students add bodies to three of Formby's heads, creating trouble ..read more »
44%
from 12 members
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I Thank You
on DVD
(1941)
Starring: Moore Marriott, Arthur Askey, Graham Moffatt
Director: Marcel Varnel
Certificate:
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Arthur and Dickie become servants in order to raise money for their theatre troupe. Fortunatly, their employer puts up the money for a stage performance for them to star in.
66%
from 78 members
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South American George
on DVD
(1941)
Starring: George Formby, Linden Travers, Felix Aylmer
Director: Marcel Varnel
Certificate:
To help out his exact double, George Formby (in a dual role) takes the place of a noted South American tenor. This way he can help the opera star fulfill contract obligations and also win the heart of the man's lovely press agent, Linden Travers.
47%
from 15 members
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Gasbags
(1941)
Starring: Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Jimmy Nervo
Director: Walter Forde, Marcel Varnel
Certificate:
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Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox and Naughton & Gold do their bit for the war effort as the Crazy Gang inadvertantly invade Germany when their barrage balloon gets swept away in a sudden gust of wind.
67%
from 25 members
Not available for rental
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Band Waggon
on DVD
(1940)
Starring: Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch
Director: Marcel Varnel
Certificate:
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Arthur and Stinker move into a castle in Sussex. Once there they find television equipment and put on a show, little realising that the equitment is being used by German secret agents.
64%
from 74 members
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Will Hay - Hey! Hey! USA
on DVD
(1938)
Starring: Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Edgar Kennedy
Director: Marcel Varnel
Certificate: 
Dr. Benjamin Twist is invited to act as tutor to the son of a millionaire in the United States of America, after posing as a famous professor. Twist discovers that two gangs of villains are out to kidnap his precocious young pupil, Bernie Schultz...
63%
from 383 members
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Will Hay - Old Bones Of The River
on DVD
(1938)
Starring: Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott
Director: Marcel Varnel, William Beaudine
Certificate:
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When Professor Benjamin Tibbets travels to Africa up river to open schools for the natives, he experiences several setbacks. His new pupils are less than receptive, and when the commander of the local base goes down with malaria he takes on his duties as well. Aided by the crew of the boat on which ..read more »
64%
from 484 members
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Will Hay - Oh Mr Porter
on DVD
(1937)
Starring: Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott
Director: Marcel Varnel
Certificate:
For 20 years the railway Superintendent has wanted to fire the bungling William Porter, but as Porter is related to the Managing Director, he does not dare. When Porter is appointed to Buggleskelly, a near-derelict station in Ireland, he organises an early morning excursion train for a sinister one-..read more »
72%
from 1,244 member
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Will Hay - Good Morning Boys
on DVD
(1937)
Starring: Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Edgar Kennedy
Director: Marcel Varnel
Certificate:
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The boys at St. Michael spend most their time gambling, betting and setting booby traps for their Head Master, Dr Benjamin Twist. A new Governor inspects the school and demands the Head Master's resignation. Dr Twist defends his educational methods and is given a chance to show what his boys can do ..read more »
67%
from 575 members
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No Limit
on DVD
(1935)
Starring: George Formby, Florence Desmond, Howard Douglas
Director: Anthony Kimmins, Monty Banks, Marcel Varnel
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George Shuttleworth (Formby) is convinced that he has the talent to win the Isle of Man TT races, despite what his neighbours back home in Wigan may think. During the trials, the brakes go on George's bike, 'The Shuttleworth Snap', which he made himself. As a result, he breaks the TT lap record, ..read more »
73%
from 261 members
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Will Hay - Convict 99
on DVD
Starring: Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott
Director: Marcel Varnel
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A disgraced school master, Bejamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and is assigned in charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals. Believing he is being sent to a school rather than a prison, he celebrates accordingly only to find that his drunkenness accidently lands him ..read more »
69%
from 734 members
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Will Hay - Boys Will Be Boys
on DVD
Starring: Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott
Director: Marcel Varnel, William Beaudine
Certificate:
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Will Hay is a teacher in a prison, who applies for the Headship of Narkover, a public school. This is the first screen appearance of Hay in his famous schoolmaster role, in a story based on Dr Smart-Alec, the character created by John Cameron, Andrieu Bingham and Michael Morton (JB Morton, '..read more »
66%
from 678 members
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The Frozen Limits
Starring: Chesney Allen, Eileen Bell, Eric Clavering
Director: Marcel Varnel
Certificate:
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The Crazy Gang, a pre-Monty Python group of British "nut" comedians, were popular on stage and screen from 1935 through 1962. In The Frozen Limits, the comic sextet Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Jimmy Nervo, Teddy Knox, Charlie Naughton and Jimmy Gold, head to Alaska to take advantage of the 1898 ..read more »
71%
from 6 members
Not available for rental
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