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Back-Room Boy is a British film of genre Comedy directed by Herbert Mason with Moore Marriott
Back-Room Boy (1942)
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Add to a movie listBack-Room Boy is a 1942 British comedy film directed by Herbert Mason and starring Arthur Askey, Googie Withers, Graham Moffatt and Moore Marriott. A man from the Met Office is sent to a lighthouse on a remote Scottish island to monitor the weather. He hopes to escape from women, but soon finds the island overrun by them.
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Arthur Askey plays meteorologist Arthur Pilbeam who is jilted by his fiancée Betty because he has to speed back to the BBC every hour, on the hour due to his internationally vital job of creating the BBC pips. As he cannot be fired during wartime and wanting to avoid all women, he is assigned the solitary job of sending weather reports from a remote Scottish lighthouse. Before taking a boat from the mainland during the four hours of daylight that are available for the time of year, the locals warn him he will go mad from isolation and the curse of a mermaid within a month as others have.Actors
Moore Marriott
(Jerry)
Arthur Askey
(Arthur Pilbeam)
Graham Moffatt
(Albert)
Googie Withers
(Bobbie)
Vera Frances
(Jane)
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