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{{About|the 1940 British film|other uses|Let George do it (disambiguation){{!}}Let George do it}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=May 2016}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Let George Do It!
| image = "Let_George_Do_It!"_(1940).jpg
| caption = US cinema poster
| director = [[Marcel Varnel]]
| producer = [[Michael Balcon]]
| writer = Basil Dearden [[John Dighton]] [[Angus MacPhail]] [[Austin Melford]]
| starring = [[George Formby]] [[Phyllis Calvert]] [[Garry Marsh]]
| music = [[Ernest Irving]] [[Eddie Latta]]
| cinematography = [[Ronald Neame]]
| editing = [[Ray Pitt]]
| studio = [[Associated Talking Pictures]] [[Ealing Studios]]
| distributor = [[Associated British Film Distributors|ABFD]] {{small|(UK)}}
| released = {{film date|df=y|1940|07|12|UK}}<ref name=Premiere/>
| runtime = 82 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
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'''''Let George Do It!''''' (US: ''To Hell With Hitler'') is a 1940 British [[black-and-white]] [[comedy film|comedy]] [[musical film|musical]] [[war film]] directed by [[Marcel Varnel]] and starring [[George Formby]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6aebb577|title=Let George Do It! (1940)|website=BFI}}</ref> It was produced by [[Michael Balcon]] for Associated Talking Pictures and its successor, [[Ealing Studios]], and distributed in the UK by [[Associated British Film Distributors|ABFD]]. This was the first comedy from this studio to deal directly with the [[World War II|Second World War]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/detail/movie.aspx?tvobjectid=104145 |title=Let George Do It Trailer, Reviews and Schedule for Let George Do It |work=TV Guide|access-date=2014-03-12}}</ref>

==Plot==
At the beginning of the Second World War, before Germany invaded [[Norway]], a [[banjulele|ukulele]] player in a British dance band playing at a [[Bergen]] hotel, is found shot dead during a radio broadcast of the band's show. It turns out he was a British agent keeping an eye on the band leader, Mark Mendes ([[Garry Marsh]]), who is suspected of being a German agent passing on information about British shipping to German [[U-boat]]s, using a code concealed in the radio broadcasts.

When Mendes calls a musician's agent in London for a replacement, British Intelligence tries to send another agent in his place. However, through a series of mistakes in a [[Blackout (wartime)|blacked out]] [[Dover]], ukulele player George Hepplewhite ([[George Formby]]), who is on his way to [[Blackpool]], is put on the boat to Bergen instead of the new agent. When he arrives, the receptionist at the hotel, Mary Wilson ([[Phyllis Calvert]]), who is another British agent, makes contact but eventually realises the mistake. George, however, is totally unaware and starts working with the band, although Mendes is suspicious of him. Eventually Mary tells George what is going on, and together they manage to find what the code is and alert the Royal Navy.

When Mendes discovers that his code has been broken, he gives George a cup of coffee containing a [[truth serum]], and George reveals that he and Mary are British spies. George, drugged, is left in his room, where he dreams of flying to Germany and giving Hitler a right hook. Eventually, he flees to join Mary on board a ship, but it has already left. So he hides in a motorboat which takes Mendes to a German U-boat, with the intent to torpedo British troop ships as well as the ship that Mary is on. George manages to get on board and alert Mary's ship over the U-boat's radio. After a series of chaotic incidents on board, where George accidentally launches the U-boat's torpedoes and thus tells the British Navy where to find it, he hides in one of the empty torpedo tubes. So when Mendes tries to torpedo Mary's ship, he shoots out George instead, who flies through the air and lands on the ship deck, thus reuniting with Mary.

==Cast==
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* [[George Formby]] as George Hepplewhite
* [[Phyllis Calvert]] as Mary Wilson
* [[Garry Marsh]] as Mark Mendez
* [[Romney Brent]] as Slim Selwyn
* [[Bernard Lee]] as Oscar
* [[Coral Browne]] as Iris
* [[Helena Pickard]] as Oscar's wife
* [[Percy Walsh]] as Schwartz
* [[Ronald Shiner]] as the Clarinetist
* [[Ben Williams (actor)|Ben Williams]] as Radio Operator on SS Macaulay (uncredited)
* [[Jack Hobbs (actor)|Jack Hobbs]] as Conway
* [[Torin Thatcher]] as the U-Boat Commander
{{div col end}}

==Release==
The film premiered at the [[Empire, Leicester Square]] in London on 12 July 1940,<ref name=Premiere>[http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=kenlib&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=&docId=CS102577900&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0 ''The Times'', 12 July 1940, page 6, Picture Theatres: ''Empire: Let George Do It''] Linked 2015-11-18</ref> taking over after ''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]'',<ref>[http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=kenlib&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=&docId=CS102708971&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0 ''The Times'', 11 July 1940, page 6, Picture Theatres: Empire: Last Day "Gone with the Wind". Tomorrow Geo. Formby in "Let George Do it"] Linked 2015-11-18</ref> which had run at the venue for 12 weeks.<ref>[http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/912 Cinema Treasures: ''Empire Cinema''] Linked 2015-11-18</ref>

According to [[Vic Pratt]] writing for the BFI's [[Screenonline]] website, it is "one of the best constructed and most consistently amusing of the George Formby comedies."<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/810652/ |title= ''Let George Do It!'' (1940) |website= BFI Screenonline |date= 2003–14 |access-date= 18 November 2015}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0032699}}
* {{Screenonline title|810652}}
* ''[http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/81237/Let-George-Do-It/ Let George Do It]'' at the [[Turner Classic Movies|TCM Movie Database]]
* {{AllMovie title|99403}}
*[https://archive.org/details/variety140-1940-10/page/n150/mode/1up/search/%22ken+g+hall%22?q=%28%22Ken+G+Hall%22%29+AND+creator%3A%28variety%29 Review of film] at Variety
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{{Michael Balcon}}

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