Will Hay Collection

A collection of classic films starring British comic actor, Will Hay. In 'Ask A Policeman' 1939, the police force of crime-free Turnbotham Round consists of Sergeant Dudfoot Hay and officers Harbottle Moore Marriott and Albert Graham Moffatt. When the commissioner suggests that they are no longer neccessary, they set about engineering a crime wave in the village, so that they can be seen to be solving it. Their attempts fail, until they stumble upon a genuine case of smuggling. In 'Boys Will be Boys' 1935, prison teacher Dr Smart-Alec Hay steps up the career ladder to become headmaster of Narkover public school, but his innate stupidity soon begins to create havoc. Will Hay dons a mortarboard on screen for the first time, in the bumbling headmaster role that was to become his trademark. In 'Oh, Mr Porter!', bungling 1937, station master William Porter Hay is appointed to the run down station of Buggleskelly in Ireland by the resentful Superintendent. When he charters an early morning train for a sinister one-eyed man, his staff, Harbottle Marriott and Albert Moffatt are suspicious. They investigate, and discover that arms smugglers are using a deserted railway tunnel as a base. In 'Convict 99' 1939, disgraced teacher Benjamin Twist Hay finds himself put in charge of a prison for hardened criminals when he is mistaken for a tough prison governor. When he celebrates by getting drunk, Twist ends up behinds bars himself. In 'Old Bones Of The River' 1938, when Professor Benjamin T
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