7.3

My Learned Friend

1943, UK

• Actors: Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Mervyn Johns, Laurence Hanray, Aubrey Mallalieu, Charles Victor, Derna Hazell, Leslie Harcourt, Eddie Phillips, G.H. Mulcaster, Ernest Thesiger, Lloyd Pearson, Gibb McLaughlin, Maudie Edwards, Hy Hazell, Ronald Shiner, H Victor Weske, Valerie White, Ian Wilson
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): Basil Dearden
• Available languages:
  • English English.

An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Hay is on the list, and co-opts Claude Hulbert to try and stop him from meeting a grisly end. This black comedy suggests that, had he lived, Will Hay might have moved on to the darker corners of Ealing comedies such as 'The Ladykillers'.

  6.8

The Ghost of St. Michael's

1941, UK

• Actors: Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Charles Hawtrey, Raymond Huntley, Felix Aylmer, Elliott Mason, John Laurie, Hay Petrie, Roddy Hughes, Manning Whiley, Charles Mortimer, Derek Blomfield, Clive Baxter, David Keir, Brefni O'Rorke, Derek Aylward, Gerald Campion, Laurence Hanray, Bryan Herbert, Jack May, Ben Williams
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): Marcel Varnel
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Will Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary ghost, whose spectral bagpipes signal the death of one of the staff. Hay, assisted by Claude Hulbert and Charles Hawtrey, has to unravel the mystery before he becomes the next victim.

  6.8

Where's That Fire?

1940, UK

• Actors: Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Peter Gawthorne, Eric Clavering, Hugh McDermott, Charles Hawtrey, Dave O'Toole, Frank Atkinson, George Carney, Wilson Coleman, David Keir, Sebastian Smith, Charles Victor
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): Marcel Varnel
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A hapless fire crew are given the ultimatum: put out a fire successfully or else be sacked. They fail miserably, and their ancient fire engine is stolen by criminals attempting to steal the crown jewels from the Tower of London.

  7.2

Ask a Policeman

1938, UK

• Actors: Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott, Glennis Lorimer, Peter Gawthorne, Charles Oliver, Herbert Lomas, Patrick Aherne, Cyril Chamberlain, Noel Dainton, Desmond Llewelyn, Dave O'Toole, Brian Worth
• Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
• Director(s): Marcel Varnel
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Turnbottom Round prides itself as the village without crime; there has not been an arrest recorded by the local police for years. Unfortunately, this is more to do with the inability of Sgt Dudfoot and his constables Jerry and Harbottle to so much as recognise a crime. With their jobs on the line, the trio attempt to stage a crime of their own, only to inadvertently uncover a smuggling ring and a headless horseman...

  6.9

Convict 99

1938, UK

• Actors: Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Googie Withers, Peter Gawthorne, Basil Radford, Dennis Wyndham, Wilfred Walter, Alf Goddard, Garry Marsh, Graham Soutten, Teddy Brown, Kathleen Harrison, Roy Emerton, Bertha Belmore, Clifford Buckton, Noel Dainton, Roddy McDowall, Basil McGrail, George Merritt, Bernard Miles, Charles Paton, Leonard Sharp, Harry Terry
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): Marcel Varnel
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals. Believing he is being sent to a school rather than a prison, he celebrates accordingly only to find that his drunkenness accidently lands him on the wrong side of the prison bars. The Governorship is eventually restored to him, and he sets about popularising himself amongst the convicts by turning a blind eye to their shady dealings.

  7.4

Oh, Mr. Porter!

1937, UK

• Actors: Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Sebastian Smith, Agnes Lauchlan, Percy Walsh, Dennis Wyndham, Dave O'Toole, Frank Atkinson, Bryan Herbert, Betty Jardine, Frederick Lloyd, Frederick Piper, Charles Rolfe, Beatrice Varley
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): Marcel Varnel
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Through the influence of a relative, a hopeless railway employee is made stationmaster the sleepy Irish station of Buggleskelly. Determined to make his mark, he devises a number of schemes to put Buggleskelly on the railway map, but instead falls foul of a gang of gun runners.

  6.7

Where There's a Will

1936, UK

• Actors: Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, H.F. Maltby, Norma Varden, Peggy Simpson, Gibb McLaughlin, Gina Malo, Hartley Power, Eddie Houghton, Hal Walters, John Turnbull, Sybil Brooke, Davina Craig, Henry Adries, Gordon Begg, Mickey Brantford, Pam Downing, Frederick Piper
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): William Beaudine
• Available languages:
  • English English.

An incompetent solicitor unwittingly becomes party to a bank robbery.

  6.8

Windbag the Sailor

1936, UK

• Actors: Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Norma Varden, Kenneth Warrington, Dennis Wyndham, Amy Veness, Peter Gawthorne, George Merritt, Charles Rolfe, Leonard Sharp, Harry Terry, Percy Walsh
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): William Beaudine
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who means to have it wrecked. This was the first film to couple Will Hay with both Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt.

  6.9

Good Morning, Boys

1936, UK

• Actors: Will Hay, Martita Hunt, Peter Gawthorne, Graham Moffatt, Fewlass Llewellyn, Mark Daly, Peter Godfrey, C. Denier Warren, Lilli Palmer, Charles Hawtrey, Will Hay Jr., Basil McGrail, Jacques Brown, Lewis Broughton, Noel Dainton, Cot D'Ordan, Clive Dunn, Charles McBain, Charles Paton, Terry Richardson, Paul Sheridan, Richard Todd
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): Marcel Varnel
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A schoolteacher and his pupils visit Paris where they outwit a gang of crooks.