Keep Your Seats, Please

Keep Your Seats, Please
Directed byMonty Banks
Written byIlya Ilf (novel)
Yevgeny Petrov (novel)
Anthony Kimmins
Thomas J. Geraghty
Ian Hay
Produced byBasil Dean
StarringGeorge Formby
Florence Desmond
Alastair Sim
Gus McNaughton
Binkie Stuart
CinematographyJohn W. Boyle
Edited byJack Kitchin
Music byErnest Irving
Production
company
Distributed byABFD
Release date
  • 1 August 1936 (1936-08-01)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Keep Your Seats, Please is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Monty Banks and starring George Formby, Florence Desmond and Alastair Sim. It marked the film debut of the child star Binkie Stuart. The film was made by Associated Talking Pictures.[1]

The film, which features Formby's most famous tune, "When I'm Cleaning Windows", follows a farcical plot based on the 1928 Russian satirical novel The Twelve Chairs by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov.

  1. ^ "Keep Your Seats, Please". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 23 November 2023.