Sunderland-born music hall star Ernest Lotinga was one of the most accomplished variety artists of the early 20th century proving massively popular throughout the 1930s with his comic creation 'Josser' introduced to British audiences in a series of short films during the early part of the decade. Owing to the scarcity of archive material the fast-talking charismatic performer admired by T.S. Eliot as 'the greatest living British histrionic Artist' is now all but forgotten; however this rare full-length feature presented here in a brand-new digital transfer from... original film elements easily demonstrates why Lotinga's sparky and often irreverent humour was cherished by a generation. Charting the military escapades of serial bungler Tommy Josser Josser in the Army sees the hapless hero in France during wartime where he masquerades as a German general unmasks a spy gets captured and then makes a spectacular airborne escape! SPECIAL FEATURES [] Image gallery [] Archive Ernest Lotinga interview PDF [show more]
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Norman Lee directs this 1930s British comedy starring popular music hall performer Ernest Lotinga. Born in Sunderland, Lotinga made a name for himself as one of the foremost farcical performers of the day and began exploring the character of Tommy Josser, a distinctly unheroic Englishman, on stage and in a series of short films. This feature-length adventure finds Tommy serving in France during the war, where he ends up impersonating a German general and gets himself into all sorts of trouble. Arnold Bell, Hal Gordon and Jack Hobbs also star.
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