Spare a Copper is a 1940 British black-and-white musical comedy war film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring George Formby, Dorothy Hyson and Bernard Lee.

The film features the songs, "I'm the Ukulele Man", "On the Beat", "I Wish I Was Back on the Farm" and "I'm Shy".

[3][page needed] The film title is a pun, using the colloquial term "copper" meaning a policeman, with the longer phrase "spare a copper" used by beggars - meaning can you spare a penny (which I might have).

Formby plays a bumbling War Reserve police officer called George Carter who aspires to become a member of the flying squad.

The saboteurs include fellow police officers who plan to shoot Formby in a remote area but he escapes in a motorised toy car.