Movie Comedy
A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders portraits of some prominent local females are sold without his knowledge to an advertising agency and are published with nude bodies added to them.
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George Formby Kathleen Harrison Jimmy Clitheroe Eileen Bennett Hilda Bayley Joss Ambler Charles Hawtrey Eric Clavering D.J. Williams Gibb McLaughlin Peter Gawthorne George Bishop Clifford Buckton Noel Dainton Fred Foster Eleanor Hallam Gus McNaughton Judith Nelmes May Norton Dave O'Toole Percy Walsh Frank Atkinson Valentine Dyall Alf Goddard Mike Johnson James Knight Wally Patch Harry Terry Ben Williams Jack Vyvyan
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