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Back-Room Boy

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Original title

Back-Room Boy

Year

1942

Running time

82 min.

Country

United Kingdom

Director

Herbert Mason

Screenwriter

J.O.C. Orton, Val Guest, Marriott Edgar

Cast

Music

Hans May

Cinematography

Jack E. Cox (B&W)

Producer

Gainsborough Pictures, Gaumont British. Distributor: Standard Television, Unity Television [USA]

Genre

Comedy

Synopsis

A lowly BBC employee pulls a prank at the studio and finds himself transferred to an isolated island where he is to set up a weather station at a lighthouse. As if in a fantasy, a ship carrying a bevy of beautiful models is shipwrecked off the coast and the models wind up on the island. However, when the models begin disappearing.

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Back-Room Boy

1942

Herbert Mason