Stanley Holloway delivers a comic monologue describing how the character Sam Small visited Parliament, and how, incensed by Opposition criticism, he made a speech in support of the National Government. This film was made for the 1935 general election in which Stanley Baldwin, rather than Ramsay MacDonald, was to stand as prime minister. Although made for the National Government, the film was produced by the Conservative and Unionist Film Association, which had made all of the National Government's films.

A similar comic propaganda film, Arthur Prince and Jim in a Ventriloquial Sketch (1935), was also produced for the 1935 election and both are early examples of celebrities endorsing a political party.

Simon Baker

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