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Will Hay - Good Morning Boys
The boys at St. Michael spend most their time gambling, betting and setting booby traps for their Head Master, Dr Benjamin Twist. A new Governor inspects the school and demands the Head Master's resignation. Dr Twist defends his educational methods and is given a chance to show what his boys can do in a public examination. He .. Read more
| Starring | Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Edgar Kennedy, Tommy Bupp |
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| Director | Marcel Varnel |
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Will Hay - Good Morning Boys
The boys at St. Michael spend most their time gambling, betting and setting booby traps for their Head Master, Dr Benjamin Twist. A new Governor inspects the school and demands the Head Master's resignation. Dr Twist defends his educational methods and is given a chance to show what his boys can do in a public examination. He comes, accidentally, into possession of the French paper and the boys insists on his showing it to them. They pass with honours and are invited to Paris to receive the congratulations of the French educational authorities. Trouble starts when the father of one of the boys escapes from Dartmoor. He and his gang steal the Mona Lisa from the Louvre with the inadvertent help of Dr Twist and the boys - will they manage to clear their names?
| Starring | Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Edgar Kennedy, Tommy Bupp, Martita Hunt, Peter Gawthorne, Peter Gawthorne |
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| Director | Marcel Varnel |
| Studio | CARLTON VISUAL ENTERTAINMENT LTD |
| Run time | Watch now: 1 hr 20 mins |
| Certificate | DVD: , Watch Online: |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 11 Aug 2003 Watch now: 16 Jun 2009 Production year: 1937 |
| Watch now | Subscribe and watch this as part of an unlimited package. |
| Format | DVD |
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Will Hay returns to his celebrated music-hall persona of the cynically incompetent schoolmaster in the first of several films he made with French director Marcel Varnel. Having to bluff furiously to remain one step ahead of a class that contains the ever-mischievous Graham Moffat, Hay is close to his peak as he lectures to a conference of educationalists, flirts with chanteuse Lilli Palmer and helps prevent the theft of the Mona Lisa. However, nothing beats his turning a discussion on betting into a lesson on Agincourt to fool an aggressive governor (Martita Hunt).
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Classic will hay
They dont make them like this anymore.
Although not my fav will hay film.Its still a good one and any self respecting fan would enjoy this in their collection. -
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Classic Brit
This is typical of the British comedies so popular before and during the Second World War, predicated on the undermining of authority and making fun of foreigners, full of word play, puns and verbal misunderstandings rather than double entendre.
Will Hay was a true original with his bits of business, and one of those comedians who was a great influence on the post-war generation who became big television stars. His dodgy schoolmaster was continued into the fifties by Jimmy Edwards, the St. Trinians films and early Carry Ons until the 1960s changed attitudes to authority figures forever. Historically interesting and still funny, if not always for the intended reasons. -
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The boys at St. Michael spend most their time gambling, betting and setting booby traps for their Head Master, Dr Benjamin Twist. A new Governor inspects the school and demands the Head Master's ... -