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Ask a Policeman
7.4

Ask a Policeman

Apr 29, 1939

Ask a Policeman
1939 83 min 21 vues
The mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremias Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime-wave to save their jobs---and then find themselves involved in the real thing.
Comedy
Oh, Mr. Porter!
6.9

Oh, Mr. Porter!

Oct 05, 1937

Oh, Mr. Porter!
1937 85 min 26 vues
Comedy in which a bungling railway worker is given the job of stationmaster at a rundown station in rural Ireland, where his sidekicks are a toothless old gaffer and a portly young loudmouth. Hilarious adventures ensue, including a locomotive chase after gunrunners make off with a train.
Comedy
Convict 99
6.8

Convict 99

Sep 26, 1938

Convict 99
1938 91 min 11 vues
A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals. Believing he is being sent to a school rather than a prison, he celebrates accordingly only to find that his drunkenness accidently lands him on the wrong side of the prison bars. The Governorship is eventually restored to him, and he sets about popularising himself amongst the convicts by turning a blind eye to their shady dealings.
Comedy
Good Morning, Boys!
6.8

Good Morning, Boys!

May 27, 1937

Good Morning, Boys!
1937 79 min 9 vues
Dr. Benjamin Twist (Hay) and his pupils become involved with art thieves on a trip to Paris. Hay’s seamy schoolmaster act is supported by a fine cast including Charles Hawtrey and Lilli Palmer.
Comedy
Where There's a Will
6.6

Where There's a Will

Aug 10, 1936

Where There's a Will
1936 80 min 5 vues
Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, which Hay confiscates so that he can read it later. Stubbins later takes a job from a group of Americans who claim they want him to track down some ancestors of theirs in Scotland. In reality however they want to use his office so they can rob a safe in the room immediately below his office. Stubbins takes the job (which is designed to keep him out of the office). In the end Stubbins realises his mistake and at a Christmas Eve fancy dress party he informs a group of carol singing policeman about the Americans nefarious activities
Comedy
My Learned Friend
6

My Learned Friend

Oct 25, 1943

My Learned Friend
1943 74 min 15 vues
An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Hay is on the list, and co-opts Claude Hulbert to try and stop him from meeting a grisly end.
Comedy
Boys Will Be Boys
6.2

Boys Will Be Boys

Jul 01, 1935

Boys Will Be Boys
1935 80 min 15 vues
Alec Smart, who is engaged teaching in a prison, applies for the job of headmaster at a nearby public school to replace the previous headmaster who has been convicted of writing forged cheques and has just been sent to prison. Smart appeals to the Governor to write him a good reference which he pretends to. Afterwards he writes his real recommendation which is very negative about Smart's talents. The trustee who works as the Governor's secretary, Faker Brown, "accidentally" gets the two letters mixed up and delivers the one praising Smart. On the basis of the letter, Lady Dorking, the who runs the Board of Governors appoints Smart to the job. This angers her deputy, Colonel Crableigh, who had favoured promoting his nephew, the Deputy head.
Comedy
Windbag the Sailor
7.7

Windbag the Sailor

Dec 01, 1936

Windbag the Sailor
1936 87 min 8 vues
Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who means to have it wrecked. This was the first film to couple Will Hay with both Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt.
Comedy
Old Bones of the River
5.1

Old Bones of the River

Dec 01, 1938

Old Bones of the River
1938 90 min 4 vues
Hay plays Professor Benjamin Tibbetts, representative of the Teaching & Welfare Institution for the Reformation of Pagans (otherwise known as T.W.I.R.P for short), and dedicated to spreading education amongst the natives of colonial Africa. As he arrives (still trying to learn the native language via recordings), Professor Tibbetts is tricked into sneaking a gin still into the country by a local prince. Later, Tibbetts makes his way to Kombooli High, where his students wear Eton collars alongside their native garb and Tibbetts finds himself sporting a mortarboard and safari shorts due to the heat. When the Commissioner falls ill with a dose of malaria, Tibbetts is forced to take over his duties, which include collecting the taxes. Upriver, he finds an old paddlesteamer operated by Harbottle (Moore Marriott) and Albert (Graham Moffatt) and the threesome rescue a baby from death by sacrifice.
Comedy
The Ghost of St. Michael's
6.6

The Ghost of St. Michael's

Apr 01, 1941

The Ghost of St. Michael's
1941 82 min 10 vues
L'école St Michael a été évacuée sur l'île de Skye, dans le château de Dunbain. M. William Lamb, le nouveau professeur, essuie des débuts peu encourageants. Il apprend que le lieu est hanté par le fantôme de Mad MacKinnon, qui joue de la cornemuse lorsque quelqu'un dans le château doit mourir...
Comedy
Dandy Dick
5.8

Dandy Dick

Mar 01, 1935

Dandy Dick
1935 74 min 3 vues
The Very Reverend Richard Jedd has a problem: the church spire, now in a parlous state of repair, will cost nearly £1,000 to fix. When various money-raising schemes go awry, he is persuaded to waive his principles and bet what’s left of his savings on Dandy Dick, a 10-1 odds-on at the local races. A simple tonic to enhance the nag’s performance seems a good idea… but when the butler decides to intervene, the respectable clergyman finds himself in the middle of a doping scandal – and worse!
Comedy
Le Pas de l'oie
6.4

Le Pas de l'oie

Aug 01, 1942

Le Pas de l'oie
1942 79 min 12 vues
L'instituteur William Potts est le double d'un espion allemand capturé, il est donc envoyé en Allemagne par les services secrets britanniques pour obtenir les plans d'une nouvelle arme secrète, provoquant ainsi le chaos dans une école de la jeunesse hitlérienne.
Comedy
Those Were the Days
7.5

Those Were the Days

Apr 02, 1934

Those Were the Days
1934 80 min 2 vues
A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which the son (John Mills) of a stern magistrate (Will Hay) visits a music hall against the wishes of his father. In true farcical style, the magistrate too ends up at the music hall, and before long all the characters are trying not to avoid each other... Mainly notable (a) because of its depiction of the music hall as seen by a generation which knew it intimately (b) because of its use of music hall acts of the time and (c) because it gave Will Hay his first film role.
Music
Hey! Hey! USA
6.9

Hey! Hey! USA

Oct 01, 1938

Hey! Hey! USA
1938 88 min 11 vues
While working as a porter Benjamin Twists mistakenly ends up on a cruise ship heading for the USA. Upon landing on the American coast Twist takes up work as a professor.
Comedy
Radio Parade of 1935
5.7

Radio Parade of 1935

Dec 12, 1934

Radio Parade of 1935
1934 96 min 3 vues
One of the first screen outings for Will Hay. Hay plays the Director General of the National Broadcasting Group (NBG) who hides away in his office unaware that the general feeling about his programming is that it is too high-brow and the public are not happy. However, when he discovers this he decides to take action and promotes Jimmy, his Head of the Complaints Department, to Programme Director. Jimmy decides that a series of variety spectaculars are what the public want and sets about hiring the acts. But obstacles are put in his way and he discovers that the NBG has its own cluster of wannabe variety stars.
Music
The Big Blockade
6.5

The Big Blockade

Jan 19, 1942

The Big Blockade
1942 73 min 4 vues
Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.
Drama
Go to Blazes
10

Go to Blazes

Jan 01, 1942

Go to Blazes
1942 9 min 1 vues
Ministry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat of incendiary bombs.
Comedy
My Learned Friend
6

My Learned Friend

Oct 25, 1943

My Learned Friend
1943 74 min 15 vues
An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Hay is on the list, and co-opts Claude Hulbert to try and stop him from meeting a grisly end.
Comedy
Le Pas de l'oie
6.4

Le Pas de l'oie

Aug 01, 1942

Le Pas de l'oie
1942 79 min 12 vues
A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America.
Comedy
Boys Will Be Boys
6.2

Boys Will Be Boys

Jul 01, 1935

Boys Will Be Boys
1935 80 min 15 vues
Alec Smart, who is engaged teaching in a prison, applies for the job of headmaster at a nearby public school to replace the previous headmaster who has been convicted of writing forged cheques and has just been sent to prison. Smart appeals to the Governor to write him a good reference which he pretends to. Afterwards he writes his real recommendation which is very negative about Smart's talents. The trustee who works as the Governor's secretary, Faker Brown, "accidentally" gets the two letters mixed up and delivers the one praising Smart. On the basis of the letter, Lady Dorking, the who runs the Board of Governors appoints Smart to the job. This angers her deputy, Colonel Crableigh, who had favoured promoting his nephew, the Deputy head.
Comedy
Where There's a Will
6.6

Where There's a Will

Aug 10, 1936

Where There's a Will
1936 80 min 5 vues
Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, which Hay confiscates so that he can read it later. Stubbins later takes a job from a group of Americans who claim they want him to track down some ancestors of theirs in Scotland. In reality however they want to use his office so they can rob a safe in the room immediately below his office. Stubbins takes the job (which is designed to keep him out of the office). In the end Stubbins realises his mistake and at a Christmas Eve fancy dress party he informs a group of carol singing policeman about the Americans nefarious activities
Comedy
Dandy Dick
5.8

Dandy Dick

Mar 01, 1935

Dandy Dick
1935 74 min 3 vues
The Very Reverend Richard Jedd has a problem: the church spire, now in a parlous state of repair, will cost nearly £1,000 to fix. When various money-raising schemes go awry, he is persuaded to waive his principles and bet what’s left of his savings on Dandy Dick, a 10-1 odds-on at the local races. A simple tonic to enhance the nag’s performance seems a good idea… but when the butler decides to intervene, the respectable clergyman finds himself in the middle of a doping scandal – and worse!
Comedy