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Release, runtime and language
1940 · 77 mins · English
Directed by
John Paddy Carstairs
Starring
Bernard Lee, Beryl Reid, Bill Shine, Ellen Pollock, George Merritt, John Warwick

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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