Good Morning, Boys
1937 British film
- January 1937 (1937-01)
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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
Bibliography
- Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
- Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
External links
- Good Morning, Boys at IMDb
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Films directed by Marcel Varnel
- The Silent Witness (1932)
- Chandu the Magician (1932)
- Infernal Machine (1933)
- Freedom of the Seas (1934)
- Girls Will Be Boys (1934)
- Royal Cavalcade (1935)
- Dance Band (1935)
- The Loves of Madame Dubarry (1935)
- No Monkey Business (1935)
- Public Nuisance No. 1 (1936)
- All In (1936)
- Good Morning, Boys (1937)
- O-Kay for Sound (1937)
- Oh, Mr Porter! (1937)
- Convict 99 (1938)
- Alf's Button Afloat (1938)
- Hey! Hey! USA (1938)
- Old Bones of the River (1938)
- Ask a Policeman (1939)
- Where's That Fire? (1939)
- The Frozen Limits (1939)
- Band Waggon (1940)
- Let George Do It! (1940)
- Neutral Port (1940)
- Gasbags (1941)
- The Ghost of St. Michael's (1941)
- Turned Out Nice Again (1941)
- I Thank You (1941)
- South American George (1941)
- Hi Gang! (1941)
- Much Too Shy (1942)
- King Arthur Was a Gentleman (1942)
- Get Cracking (1943)
- Bell-Bottom George (1944)
- He Snoops to Conquer (1944)
- I Didn't Do It (1945)
- George in Civvy Street (1946)
- This Man Is Mine (1946)
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