ST. JAMES

Evening Star, Issue 23408, 27 October 1939, Page 11

ST. JAMES

A huge vat of beer is the trap in which George Formby captures a gang of counterfeiters whose exploits have been baffling the police iu ‘ Trouble Brewing ’ at the St. James. This time George is cast as a compositor whose burning ambition is to become a crime investigator. Aided and abetted by Googie Withers and Gus M‘Naughton, ho succeeds in running to earth a gang of counterfeiters whoso exploits have been baffling tho police. Before George achieves his triumph, however, he and his fellow amateur criminologists go through a series of screamingly funny misadventures in pursuit of their quarry. These take them in turn to a racecourse; an all-in wrestling match, in which George surprisingly proves the victor against a bearded champion of the art, a party given by a famous opera singer, in which George is called upon to rescue an incriminating piece of paper from a most embarrassing hiding place; and finally they find themselves in a brewery, the headquarters of the gang of forgers, in which a never-to-be-forgotten battle ensues. In a climax traught with thrills and amusement George manages to trap the counterfeiters in a huge vat full of beer, the men becoming gloriously drunk before they are finally carried off by the police. In between all their “ troubles ” George finds time and place to sing three catchy comical songs.