Back Room Boy (1942)
British radio funster Arthur Askey inherits British film comedian Will Hay's longtime stooges Moore Marriot and Graham Moffatt in Back Room Boy. Big-Hearted Askey plays a cuckoo scientist seeking peace and quiet in a Scottish lighthouse. No such luck: the house is being used as a rendezvous for Nazi spies. Beyond the presence of Marriot and Moffatt, one gets the impression that Back Room Boy was originally intended as a Will Hay vehicle, inasmuch as Hay's longtime scripters Val Guest and Marriot Edgar wrote the yarn. Young Googie Withers fares well in an a thankless leading-lady assignment. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Director(s):
- Herbert Mason
Synopsis of Back Room Boy
British radio funster Arthur Askey inherits British film comedian Will Hay's longtime stooges Moore Marriot and Graham Moffatt in Back Room Boy. Big-Hearted Askey plays a cuckoo scientist seeking peace and quiet in a Scottish lighthouse. No such luck: the house is being used as a rendezvous for Nazi spies. Beyond the presence of Marriot and Moffatt, one gets the impression that Back Room Boy was originally intended as a Will Hay vehicle, inasmuch as Hay's longtime scripters Val Guest and Marriot Edgar wrote the yarn. Young Googie Withers fares well in an a thankless leading-lady assignment. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Back Room Boy
- Arthur Askey - Arthur Pilbeam
- Moore Marriott - Jerry
- Graham Moffatt - Albert
- Googie Withers - Bobbie
- Joyce Howard - Betty
- George Merritt - Uncle
- John Salew - Steve Mason
- Vera Francis - Jane
- Director(s):
- Herbert Mason
- Writer(s):
- J.O.C. Orton, Val Guest, Marriott Edgar
- Producer(s):
- Edward Black
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