Good Morning, Boys!

Good Morning, Boys! (1937)

Dr. Benjamin Twist (Hay) and his pupils become involved with art thieves on a trip to Paris. Hay’s seamy schoolmaster act is supported by a fine cast including Charles Hawtrey and Lilli Palmer.

Date of release
1937-05-27
TMDB
7.2 / 10 (11)
Runtime
1h 19m
Genres
Comedy, Crime
Director
Marcel Varnel

Casting

Interesting facts

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 written by Val Guest, Leslie Arliss and Marriott Edgar, and was made at the Gainsborough Studios in Islington.

Background

This was the first film in which Hay collaborated with director Varnel, as well as other key members of his future cinema team, Guest and Edgar as writers, and among technicians Crabtree and Vetchinsky. Varnel imbued the film with "a style now rich, full-blooded, confident".

The comedy involves "savage mocking of our public school system" as well making fun of the British sense of honour and "playing the game". The scenario is developed from Hay's music hall turn 'The Fourth Form at St Michael's' into a "fast, hard-hitting and visual screenplay. Although the audience should dislike Twist because of his behaviour, he gains the sympathy by "his determination to survive in a hostile, efficient world...

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.

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