Keep Your Seats, Please

Keep Your Seats, Please

The picture that made Formby box-office fun favourite No. 1

1936 · 82 min · ★ 6.5 · Drama, Music

Despite being on his uppers, George is still prepared to pawn his beloved banjo in order to help his girlfriend save her niece from the orphanage. Help seems to be at hand when George is left a fortune by his old auntie, but unfortunately his inheritance is hidden inside a chair which has already been auctioned off! Can George and his chums track down his rightful due before his grasping solicitor (Alastair Sim, in an early film appearance) snatches the lot? It's hard to say, but he still finds time to perform both the title song and the classic 'When I'm Cleaning Windows'.

Directed by Monty Banks · Written by Thomas J. Geraghty

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George Formby George Withers
Florence Desmond Florrie
Alastair Sim A. S. Drayton
May Whitty Aunt Georgina Withers
Enid Stamp-Taylor Madame Louise
Gus McNaughton Max
Harry Tate Auctioneer
Tom Payne Man from Child Welfare
Beatrix Fielden-Kaye Woman from Child Welfare
Clifford Heatherley Dr. G. Wilberforce
Binkie Stuart Binkie
Hal Gordon Sailor

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