Tom Gamble
Nobby Clark
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Boat building father and son join the river patrol service and get caught-up in a spy ring.
| Release Date | 1940-12-28 |
|---|---|
| Runtime | 1h 19m |
| Director | Oswald Mitchell |
| Producer | |
| Writers | Oswald Mitchell, W.W. Jacobs |
I'm all for a bit of mindless humour, but there are limits - and this nonsense gets perilously close. Tommy Gamble ("Nobby") was a journeyman stage actor from Manchester who landed this role with the more established Edward Rigby as "Joe" as a father and son team who join a river patrol tasked with thwarting Nazi spies. I suspect the budget was paid for by War Department - it is a really clumsy attempt at morale-boosting with some truly naff music hall style numbers peppered throughout. Keep a look out for Michael Wilding as "Dick", but then again, perhaps it's not worth the bother...
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