A rascal child recruits his friends as assistants to help his father to get elected to the city council. Sadly, the children accidentally helped two jewel thieves to escape. They feel sorry about this, and then, to redeem themselves, the kids begin investigating a rival candidates conspiracy. Their involvement causes the boy's father to win the elections.
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Fred Emney as Mr. Brown
Basil Radford as Mr. Sidway
Iris Hoey as Mrs. Brown
Roddy McDowall as Ginger
Peter Miles as Henry
David Tree as Marmaduke Bott
Jenny Laird as Ethel Brown
Simon Lack as Robert Brown
Aubrey Mather as Fletcher
Eliot Makeham as Man in sweet shop
Marjorie Rhodes as Cook
Eric Searle as Marmaduke Sidway
Jack Vyvyan as Policeman
Richard Lupino as William Brown
Amy Veness as Mrs. Bott
Graham Cutts Director
United Kingdom 20 July 1940
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Knights of the square
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1940:
13 December 1940
When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.
31 October 1940
The Bumstead family is off to see relatives in the country when Blondie runs into Charlie and Millie, an eloping couple needing her help.
04 October 1940
A dizzy young woman aranges to turn her inventor-boyfriend's vacation into a chance meeting with a possible investor who happens to be her brother's future father-in-law.
10 January 1940
In 1830 Pierre Courier, a rich and elderly shipowner, awaits the return of his son Stefano, who has just returned from a long trip to Trinidad in the ship in which he is captain.
27 December 1940
Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each other's throats due to real and imagined slights.
31 May 1940
Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch.
03 August 1940
Combines airplane trips and fashion. Heavy on the fashion.
25 June 1940
A recently retired fire captain suffers from boredom, until one of his friends is killed battling an arson fire.
23 September 1940
Cary Grant narrates, and appears at the end of, this public service announcement. The Will Rogers Memorial Hospital treats patients with tuberculosis and conducts research to find a cure.
07 September 1940
Papa Bear attempts to give the family's pet canary a bath. An MGM Bear Family cartoon.
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