Spare a Copper

Year: 1940

Runtime: 77 mins

Language: English

Director: John Paddy Carstairs

Comedy

George, a bumbling reserve policeman in wartime Liverpool, is unwittingly recruited by a gang of Nazi saboteurs to serve as their pawn in a plot to sink the British battleship HMS Hercules. Framed and forced to flee, he teams up with his new girlfriend Jane, determined to prove his innocence and thwart the villains' scheme.

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