Boots! Boots! DVD, 1934

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MovieMail's Review

The tirelessly toothy George Formby hits his stride in this, the first of his increasingly successful music and comedy vehicles. As humble shoeshine boy John Willie, employed at the insufferably posh Cretonian Hotel, he ridicules the management, woos the scullery maid (played by his real-life wife Beryl, before she was banned from the sets), befuddles the upper class clientele and plucks away at his ukelele with the sparkiness of a gifted busker.
Painstakingly restored to its original crackle, Boots! Boots! dishes up enough catchy numbers to cover the craters in the plot and offers some surprisingly droll dialogue to boot: 'Are you going fishing tomorrow?' 'Oh yes.' 'Have you got worms?' 'Yes, but that's not going to stop me.'
It may lack the polish of his later films - after all, it was made in a fortnight for just £3,000 in a room above a garage off Regent street - but it instantly captures all of Formby's insubordinate charm, shows off the type of material he and his wife were touring with at the time, and has bags of joviality to spare.

Julian Upton on 18th December 2006
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Film Information

Director - Bert Tracy

Produced - 1934

Main Language - ENGLISH

Countries & Regions - British Film

Cast - George Formby

DVD Details

Certificate:	U	Publisher:	Simply Media	Region:	2
Length:	71 mins	Cat No:	123871
Format:	DVD B&W

Film Description

The musical comedy that helped launch George Formby to stardom in his first starring role. Appearing alongside his wife Beryl who plays a scullery maid, he plays a ‘Boots’ in an up-market hotel. After causing grand amounts of chaos, he gets the chance to redeem himself and show off his hidden musical talents when he finds himself topping the bill at the hotel's Gala Cabaret Night. Songs include ‘Why Don't Women Like Me?’ ‘Sitting on the Ice in the Ice Rink' and 'I Could Make a Good Living at That’. This DVD edition has been extensively restored to include a number of "lost" scenes originally cut from the film.