Good Morning, Boys
6.8 /10 1 Votes6.8
6.8/10 Letterboxd Genre Comedy | 7/10 IMDb Duration Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date January 1937 Cast (Dr. Benjamin Twist), (Lady Bogshott), (The Dean), (Arty Jones), C. Denier Warren (Minister of Education), Will Hay Jr. (Clarence)Similar movies Detachment , Wushu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lilli palmer in good morning boys 1937
Good Morning, Boys is a 1937 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and featuring Will Hay, Martita Hunt, Lilli Palmer and Peter Gawthorne. It was made at the Gainsborough Studios in Islington.
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The film marked the first appearance of both Peter Gawthorne and Charles Hawtrey in a Will Hay film, both of whom would go onto act as straight men to Hay in his future films.
Plot
Will Hay plays the roguish headmaster, Dr Twist, of a dubious boarding school for boys. Twist bets on the horses with his pupils and teaches them little. Colonel Willoughby-Gore attempts to sack the incompetent Twist but is foiled when he and his boys, after fraudulently gaining resounding success in a French examination, are invited to Paris by the French ministry of education.
In Paris they become involved with a gang of criminals, including escaped convict Arty Jones, father of one of the boys, and Yvette, a night club singer, who are attempting to steal the Mona Lisa from the Louvre and replace it with a duplicate.
Cast
Critical reception
Allmovie wrote, "the magnificent Will Hay re-creates his vaudeville characterization of a supercilious schoolmaster...But the inimitable, toothless Moore Marriott (aka "Harbottle") is conspicuous by his absence."
References
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