Feature19421 h 19 min600×480

Back-Room Boy

Edward Black

Comedy

About

After being jilted by his fiancee, Arthur Pilbeam (Arthur Askey) wants a job where he will encounter no women. He is sent to a lighthouse on a remote Scottish island which is being run as a meteoroligical station where he is supposed to be the only inhabitant. However, Jane (Vera Frances), a young girl, has stowed-away on his boat. She is looking for her uncle on the neighbouring island. Then model Bobbie turns up - her boat has been torpedoed. With the arrival of another boatload of survivors, bringing the total occupancy of the island to 13, things are getting a little crowded. That's when they all start to disappear, one by one...

Archive
Internet Archive, in Comedy films
Licence or status
Public domain (Creative Commons dedication), as the Internet Archive states it.
Credit
Edward Black
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