Strike It Rich

Office drudge George K. Gee has lots of ideas, all of them foolish. When the managing director, Davy Burnaby, finds out that Gee is the heir to the entire company, he decides to curry favor with him before informing him of that little fact. Gee with his new position, Gee indulges in a series of improbable mistakes that all turn up trumps.

Once again, this British Lion movie, written by Michael Barringer and directed by Leslie Hiscott, is missing in its original length, a victim of a purported direct strike on the company's storage facilities during the Second World War. All that remains is a Pathescope cutdown, 36 minutes compared to the original movie's 72. Given the lack of information about Gee except for his birthdate, his death in Coventry in 1959 at age 64, and the six movies he appeared in from 1919 through this one, this little to go on. He seems to have been a song-and-dance man, since he sings two songs here, and dances, but his screen character isn't terribly interesting. Nor, despite the absurd situations this movie puts him in, is this show.