Back-Room Boy is a 1942 British comedy mystery film directed by Herbert Mason, produced by Edward Black for Gainsborough Pictures and distributed by General Film Distributors. The cast includes Arthur Askey, Googie Withers, Graham Moffatt and Moore Marriott. It marked the film debut of Vera Frances. The original story was written by J.O.C. Orton, Marriott Edgar and Val Guest.
Plot: 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, the "back-room boy" investigates and finds a sinister scheme involving spies and Nazi battleships.
Credits:
Arthur Askey as Arthur Pilbeam
Moore Marriott as Jerry
Graham Moffatt as Albert
John McCallum and Googie Withers in It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)
Googie Withers as Bobbie
Vera Frances as Jane
Joyce Howard as Betty
John Salew as Steve Mason
George Merritt as Uncle
Eileen Bennett as Bit (uncredited)
Philip Friend as Damon Ravel (uncredited)
Aubrey Mallalieu as West (uncredited)
Robert Rendel as Captain of German Warship (uncredited)
D.J. Williams as McIntyre (uncredited)
Directed by Herbert Mason
Screenplay by Marriott Edgar, Val Guest, J.O.C. Orton
Story by J.O.C. Orton
Produced by Edward Black
Cinematography Jack E. Cox
Edited by R. E. Dearing
Music by Hans May
Production company Gainsborough Pictures
Distributed by General Film Distributors
