Let George Do It

Let George Do It!
US cinema poster
Directed by	Marcel Varnel
Produced by	Michael Balcon
Written by	Basil Dearden John Dighton Angus MacPhail Austin Melford
Starring	George Formby Phyllis Calvert Garry Marsh
Music by	Ernest Irving Eddie Latta
Cinematography	Ronald Neame
Edited by	Ray Pitt
Production company	Ealing Studios
Distributed by	ABFD
Release date	12 July 1940 (1940-07-12) (UK)
Running time	82 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Let George Do It (released in the United States as To Hell With Hitler) is a 1940 British black-and-white comedy musical war film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring George Formby. It was produced by Michael Balcon for Ealing Studios and Associated Talking Pictures, and distributed in the UK by ABFD. This was the first Ealing comedy to deal directly with the Second World War.

At the beginning of the Second World War, before Germany invaded Norway, a ukulele player in a British dance band playing at a Bergen hotel, is found dead during a radio broadcast of the band's show. It turns out he was a British agent keeping an eye on the band leader, Mark Mendes (Garry Marsh), who is suspected of being a German agent passing on information about British shipping to German U-boats, using a code concealed in the radio broadcasts.

When Mendes calls a musician's agent in London for a replacement, British Intelligence tries to send another agent in his place. However, through a series of mistakes in a blacked out Dover, ukulele player George Hepplewhite (George Formby), who is on his way to Blackpool, is put on the boat to Bergen instead of the new agent. When he arrives, the receptionist at the hotel, Mary Wilson (Phyllis Calvert), who is another British agent, makes contact but eventually realises the mistake. George, however, is totally unaware and starts working with the band, although Mendes is suspicious of him. Eventually Mary tells George what is going on, and together they manage to find what the code is and alert the British Navy.