Someone just sent me a joke which remind me of a film
I'd seen many years ago.

The plot is this:-

A man is sacked from his long held job in a church
because he is illiterate. On the way home he goes to light
his pipe and finds that not only has he run out of tobacco
but that he can't find a tobacconist. Later at home as he
is feeling sorry for himself the idea comes to his mind to
open up a tobacconist in the area where he couldn't find
one. He does so, it's a success, he does it again somewhere
else, and again,... and eventually makes himself a nice
little fortune. When a lawyer or bank manager finds out
he is illiterate he makes the comment 'just think where
you'd be if you could read and write', and the reply is,
of course, 'sweeping the floor in the church'.

But I can't find the film, I've no idea who was in it.
It was one of those gentle British films, in black and white,
most probably made round about WW2 time. And now it is
starting to nag at me.... :)

Anyone recognise it, or have better luck with the search engines?

A.



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