Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5907 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-05-07
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 90 minutes

Synopsis
A lively mixture of action and comedy with George Formby starring as a chimney sweep's assistant who has dreams of winning the Isle Of Man TT Races.

Customer Reviews

Classic George
Perhaps George's best film, certainly his most entertaining. Most of the laughs are, as you'd expect, from the unintentional. George is, as ever, the meek Lancastrian hero, and there's the obligatory cad and sweet girl characters. One thing that had me in stitches was the 'special effects' of George motoring over a cliff top and flipping himself back to the top - the film jumps into a short animated stickman routine. Maybe I'm being harsh here, because much of the humour is genuine and there are some real characters in it, and the unintentionally funny bits are laughing-at, rather than laughing-with. But whichever way you look at it, it's still a good jape and very entertaining.

Champion
I highly recommend this George Formby classic.

A brilliant story of an honest simpleton from Lancashire who wants to ride his bike in the famous TT races on the Isle of Man. He beats some cheating rivals and wins the girl.

Clean comedy for all the family to enjoy and some nice songs too. Probably his best film, though maybe not as popular as "Let George Do It". The transfer to DVD is also of good quality for such an old movie. I experienced none of the reported problems with audio-video synchronization.

RIDING IN THE T.T. RACES
MEMORIES...THE SOUND OF "PROPER" RACING MOTORCYCLES...

GREAT RE-ISSUE, WELL RESTORED ONTO DVD

CLEAR PICTURE AND SOUND (QUITE LOUD AT TIMES DURING THE RACING SEQUENCES!)

LIKED THE ORIGINAL BRITISH BOARD OF FILM CENSORS TITLE AT THE BEGINNING!