1940s comedy starring George Formby as a junior council employee who gets caught up in a town planning dispute. There should be unity & happiness in the small town of Tangleton
- the war has just been won & plans can be made to rebuild the town for a better future. However, when the council tea boy, George Gribble (Formby), is sent to conduct a survey on how the townspeople feel about the council's proposed post-war 'improvements' he is surprised to discover just how poor & unhappy the ordinary people of Tangleton are. When the bigwigs on the council decide to bury the survey & proceed with the plans anyway, George teams up with an eccentric inventor, Sir Timothy Strawbridge (Robertson Hare), & his charming daughter, Jane (Elizabeth Allan), to give a voice to the town's poor & downtrodden.