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I Didn't Do It (Original title)
Date: 23 July 1945 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Marcel Varnel

Synopsis: Stage struck George Trotter arrives at a theatrical boarding house and a scene of a murder. The murderer makes several attempts at framing George for the murder, then tries to murder him but is caught.

Genres:
Comedy, Musical
Releases
Date: 1945Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 96 mins Length: 8634 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (40)
Made by: Columbia (British) Productions Ltd., Produced by: Marcel Varnel, Associate Producer: Ben Henry, Unit Manager: Tom Payne, Production Manager: Ernest Gartside, Assistant Director: Alf Keating, 2nd Assistant Director: V.B. Lyndon-Haynes, 3rd Assistant Director: Dennis Rose, Continuity: Peggy Singer, Assistant Continuity: Pamela Carlton, Original Story and Screen Play by: Howard Irving Young, Original Story and Screen Play by: Stephen Black, Norman Lee, With contributions from: Peter Fraser, Michael Vaughan, Photography: Roy Fogwell, Camera Work: Harry Rose, 2nd [Camera Operator: Alan J. Cullimore, Focus Puller: Dudley Lovell, Clapper Loader: J. Muir, A. Young, Stills: Charles Hale, Film Editor: Douglas Robertson, Film Cutter: May Dennington, Assistant Editor: Jules Zampi, Art Director: George Provis, Assistant Art Director: Tom Goswell, Draughtsman: A.L. Scott, Draughtsman: Iris Newell, H. Sander, Dress Designs: Dorothy Broomham, Chief Make-up: George Claff, Hair Styles: Nora Bentley, Music Director: Harry Bidgood, Sound Supervisor: B.C. Sewell, Recordist: M.R. Hobbs, Boom Operator: Robert T. MacPhee, Sound System: British Acoustic Sound System, Made at: Gainsborough Studios
Cast (17)
George Formby (George Trotter), Caryl (Tiger Tubbs), Mundy (Ma Tubbs), Gaston Palmer (Le Grand Gaston), Jack Daly (Terry O'Rourke), Carl Jaffé (Hilary Vance), Marjorie Browne (Betty Dickson), Wally Patch (Detective Sergeant Carp), Ian Fleming (Chief Inspector Twyning), Vincent Holman (Erasmus Montague), Dennis Wyndham (Tom Driscoll), Gordon McLeod (Superintendent Belstock), Merle Tottenham (Tessie), Georgina Cookson (Willow Thane), Jack Raine (J.B. Cato), The Boswell Twins (twins), Laidman Browne ([uncredited])