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Ishtar (1987)

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Rogers and Clarke (Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman) are two inept songwriters, down on their luck...

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Philip K. Dick

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A mind-bending, classic Philip K. Dick novel about the perception of reality. Named as one of...

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May 17, 2020

Bell-Bottom George (1943)

1943 | Comedy, Musical

5.0

(1 Ratings)

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George Formby vehicle in need of a tune-up. George, who as ever is playing a good-hearted Lancastrian simpleton ukulele master, joins the navy by accident, stumbles across a nest of Nazi spies, and saves a new submarine from being sunk, while getting the girl and doing a few comic songs along the way.

These days I suspect most people only watch George Formby films for the one-liners and the musical numbers - but the script here is thin, and Formby doesn't play the uke in half the songs (which mostly aren't that good either). All the usual elements turn up - chases, slapstick, unlikely romance, etc - but the movie feels padded even at only 97 minutes long and it's just not consistently funny enough. Still, the second world war saw some terrible disasters, and this is far from the worst of them.