He Snoops to Conquer
Well, I hadn't expected eminent Garden City planner Frederic Osborn to put me on to a George Formby film, but life's like that. In his book Green Belt Cities Osborn mentions a film in which George Formby ends up caught in a plot by corrupt councillors to rob citizens of their chance for new and better homes after the Second World War.
He Snoops to Conquer is a 1944 film starring Formby, Robertson Hare, Elizabeth Allan and Claude Bailey and set in the imaginary Lancashire town of Tangleton. It's every bit as propagandist as films such as Charley in New Town, but surprisingly watchable if you like daft old British comedies (which I do). It neatly satirises slums, loan sharks and corrupt politicians, and catches the wave of political change in the air that would manifest itself in Attlee's postwar Labour government. Might pass rainy afternoon.
He Snoops to Conquer is a 1944 film starring Formby, Robertson Hare, Elizabeth Allan and Claude Bailey and set in the imaginary Lancashire town of Tangleton. It's every bit as propagandist as films such as Charley in New Town, but surprisingly watchable if you like daft old British comedies (which I do). It neatly satirises slums, loan sharks and corrupt politicians, and catches the wave of political change in the air that would manifest itself in Attlee's postwar Labour government. Might pass rainy afternoon.
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