Keep Your Seats, Please

Keep Your Seats, Please is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Monty Banks and starring George Formby, Florence Desmond and Alastair Sim.

[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.

George Withers learns he is supposed to inherit some valuable jewels from his aunt, and enlists the aid of his dubious lawyer to ensure he gets them.

"[3] Sky Movies wrote, "Formby's on form – especially singing 'Keep Your Seats, Please' and 'When I'm Cleaning Windows' – Florence Desmond's a much stronger leading lady than George usually had, and Alastair Sim made one of his first major impacts in films as the unscrupulous lawyer who also has his beady eye on the hidden fortune".

Taking time to intone such ukulele classics as "When I'm Cleaning Windows", Formby exhibits a bit more nous than usual, as he and girlfriend Florence Desmond pursue a set of antique chairs, one of which contains the jewels bequeathed him by an eccentric aunt.