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Average Rating:	Ghost Of St Michaels [1941] starring: Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Charles Hawtrey, Raymond Huntley, Felix Aylmer directed by: Marcel Varnel September 20, 1999		Used Price: Â£9.00
Bright and cheery wartime comedy, in which the boisterous lads of St Michaels are evacuated to a remote castle on the Isle Of Skye. Of course the place is haunted (and being Scotland, it naturally has to be a phantom piper whose appearance foretells doom to any who hear him), but it also comes complete with a Nazi spying ring. Will Hay is on top bumbling form as science teacher Mr Lamb, who gets Isaac Newton confused with William Tell, and he gets able support from a young and exuberant Charles Hawtrey, and John Laurie doing his wild-eyed mad Scotsman routine. Fast-paced, and quite atmospheric in its gothic Scottish castle setting. Nothing creaky about this comedy. >>More Details

Average Rating:	Will Hay - My Learned Friend (1943) starring: Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Mervyn Johns, Charles Victor, Berna Hazel directed by: Basil Dearden		Used Price: Â£39.89
In my opinion this is the best Will Hay due mainly to the superb plot. Will Hay starts out in the film as an incompetent con-man who manages to amuse the judge and gets let off. He then gets caught up with a serial killer! There are some great scenes where Will Hay and the hilarious nerd Claude Hulbert get caught up in the criminal underworld. They are completely out-of-their-depth, but as always we are on their side and their naivety somehow pulls them through. A very funny and very clever film. >>More Details

Average Rating:	The Black Sheep Of Whitehall [1942] starring: Will Hay, John Mills, Basil Sydney, Henry Hewitt, Felix Aylmer directed by: Will Hay, Basil Dearden October 08, 2001		Used Price: Â£6.00
This film is a joy from begginning to end. The attepts to rescue a kidnapped scientist never fail to be funny. Will Hay's perfomance as the incompetent head of a correspondence college who gets drawn into the plot is wonderful and John Mills gives great support. This is a film that anybody can enjoy, the humour appeals to all age groups and despite the age of the film it never seems stale. >>More Details

Average Rating:	The Goose Steps Out [1942] starring: Will Hay, Frank Pettingell, Julien Mitchell, Charles Hawtrey, Peter Ustinov directed by: Will Hay, Basil Dearden September 20, 1999		Used Price: Â£9.99
This is an absolute classic of wartime comedy. Will Hay, Charles Hawtery and Peter Ustinov all on great form. I would, under normal circumstances, give this film 5 out of 5 but I have just purchased a copy and found that two of the funniest scenes in the film have been cut from this print. The two scenes are the pronunciation of British towns (Slough, Cirencester etc) and the 'Invasion of Britain' scene on the train (Panzers down in the Severn Tunnel etc.). So my advice would be definitely see this film but save your money and wait for it to be shown on television. >>More Details

Average Rating:	Good Morning, Boys [1937] starring: Will Hay, Martita Hunt, Peter Gawthorne, Graham Moffatt, Fewlass Llewellyn directed by: Marcel Varnel November 03, 1997		Used Price: Â£0.79
The lads of St Michaels, a seedy public school, manage (by dubious means of course!) to win a French exam, and get a trip to Paris as a reward. There they manage to foil a gang who are intent on half-inching the Mona Lisa. An above-average script, Will Hay at his most comfortable as Dr Benjamin Twist, and Lilli Palmer as a vivacious femme fatale all make this worth seeing. A ludicrously young Charles Hawtry (looking like a pint-sized Harry Potter) steals the exam scene as the class swot from a rival school. A bit too creaky for some tastes, but well worth seeing for Hay fans. >>More Details

Average Rating:	Convict 99 / Ask A Policeman [1936] starring: Will Hay, Graham Moffatt directed by: Marcel Varnel May 03, 1999		Used Price: Â£2.94
Very much a case of two of the best on one super video. In "Convict 99" Will Hay is in his favourite persona of bungling schoolmaster Benjamin Twist. This time being mistaken for the new governor of Blackdown prison. Once he's in charge there an altogether softer and more fragrant routine is put in place, with inmates being woken gently at 8:30 with tea, coffee or cocoa, and a small fortune being spent on more comfy bedding and better food, and the exercise yard being turned into a sort of hotel patio-cum-betting-shop (the hang 'em and flog 'em brigade may well need smelling salts whilst watching this film!). In "Ask A Policeman" he is in charge of a village cop-shop, where no crime has been committed for the past 10 years, apart that is ... Read More: >>More Details

Average Rating:	The Golden Years Of British Comedy - The 40s by: Arthur Askey starring: George Formby, Sid Field, Sandy Powell, Frank Randle, The Crazy Gang July 07, 1997		Used Price:
Very much a case of two of the best on one super video. In "Convict 99" Will Hay is in his favourite persona of bungling schoolmaster Benjamin Twist. This time being mistaken for the new governor of Blackdown prison. Once he's in charge there an altogether softer and more fragrant routine is put in place, with inmates being woken gently at 8:30 with tea, coffee or cocoa, and a small fortune being spent on more comfy bedding and better food, and the exercise yard being turned into a sort of hotel patio-cum-betting-shop (the hang 'em and flog 'em brigade may well need smelling salts whilst watching this film!). In "Ask A Policeman" he is in charge of a village cop-shop, where no crime has been committed for the past 10 years, apart that is ... Read More: >>More Details

Average Rating:	Convict 99 [1936] starring: Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Googie Withers, Peter Gawthorne July 06, 1998		Used Price: Â£0.99
This is an excellent comedy from Will Hay. Hay, by a mix up, finds himself being the head of a prison. He then goes about trying to improve the standards, announcing to the prisoners that they should think of the prison walls as not devices to keep them in, but in fact ways of keeping the 'riff-raff' out. Events lead to gambling, theft and breaking into a bank...to put money in! Particular highlights include 'Gery the Mole's' miscalculation when trying to tunnel his way out of the prison and the prison staff offering tea and cocoe to the prisoners. This is well worth watching! >>More Details

Average Rating:	Oh! Mr Porter [1937] starring: Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Sebastian Smith, Agnes Lauchlan directed by: Marcel Varnel November 03, 1997		Used Price: Â£2.62
Comic masterpiece The Times liked this one and called it a hit.I was dubious of watching a British 1937 comedy film. I had seen clips of Will Hay over the years but I found him mildly annoying. I am not a train spotter so I wasn't going to watch it for that. Frank Lauder as the writer and he wrote things like the Great St Trinians train robbery and a lot of outstanding screenplays over the years so he has a good pedigree. The film was in the railway season on BBC4 so it was in good company. It was a treat in the style of the Carry on Films and the Marx brothers Plenty of action. It does have a plot and it all turns out right in the end. I am now encouraged to look oat other of Will Hays ... Read More: >>More Details

Average Rating:	Oh, Mr. Porter! / Convict 99 [1937][1939] starring: Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt directed by: Marcel Varnel, Edward Black June 16, 2003		Used Price: Â£5.99
Comic masterpiece The Times liked this one and called it a hit.I was dubious of watching a British 1937 comedy film. I had seen clips of Will Hay over the years but I found him mildly annoying. I am not a train spotter so I wasn't going to watch it for that. Frank Lauder as the writer and he wrote things like the Great St Trinians train robbery and a lot of outstanding screenplays over the years so he has a good pedigree. The film was in the railway season on BBC4 so it was in good company. It was a treat in the style of the Carry on Films and the Marx brothers Plenty of action. It does have a plot and it all turns out right in the end. I am now encouraged to look oat other of Will Hays ... Read More: >>More Details

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