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Good Morning, Boys! | |
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Directed by | Marcel Varnel |
Written by | Leslie Arliss Marriott Edgar |
Produced by | Edward Black |
Starring | Will Hay Graham Moffatt |
Cinematography | Arthur Crabtree |
Edited by | R.E. Dearing Alfred Roome |
Music by | Louis Levy Jack Beaver |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Gaumont British Distributors |
Release date |
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Running time | 79 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Good Morning, Boys! is a 1937 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and featuring Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Martita Hunt, Lilli Palmer and Peter Gawthorne. It was made at the Gainsborough Studios in Islington.[1]
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
- Will Hay as Dr Benjamin Twist
- Martita Hunt as Lady Bagshott
- Peter Gawthorne as Col. Willoughby-Gore
- Graham Moffatt as Albert Brown
- Fewlass Llewellyn as The Dean
- Mark Daly as Arty Jones
- Peter Godfrey as Cliquot
- C. Denier Warren as Minister of Education
- Lilli Palmer as Yvette
- Charles Hawtrey as Septimus
- George Ravenscroft as one of the boys
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."[2]
References
- ^ Wood p.90
- ^ "Good Morning, Boys (1937) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast". AllMovie. Retrieved 2014-03-22.
Bibliography
- Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
- Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
External links
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- 1937 films
- 1930s crime comedy films
- British black-and-white films
- 1930s English-language films
- British crime comedy films
- Films about educators
- Films set in schools
- Films set in England
- Films set in London
- Films set in Paris
- Islington Studios films
- Gainsborough Pictures films
- Films directed by Marcel Varnel
- Films with screenplays by Marriott Edgar
- Films scored by Jack Beaver
- 1937 comedy films
- 1930s British films
- British comedy films