Boys Will Be Boys (1935)
1935 · Feature film · 72 min · dir. William Beaudine
- Comedy
Synopsis
Alec Smart, who is engaged teaching in a prison, applies for the job of headmaster at a nearby public school to replace the previous headmaster who has been convicted of writing forged cheques and has just been sent to prison. Smart appeals to the Governor to write him a good reference which he pretends to. Afterwards he writes his real recommendation which is very negative about Smart's talents. The trustee who works as the Governor's secretary, Faker Brown, "accidentally" gets the two letters…
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- William Beaudine
- Writer
- Will Hay
- Composer
- Bretton Byrd
- Cinematography
- Charles Van Enger
- Studio
- Gainsborough Pictures
- Released
- 1935-07-01
- Running time
- 72 minutes
Cast & crew
William Beaudine Director
Will Hay
Gordon Harker
Jimmy Hanley
Davy Burnaby
Norma Varden- Claude Dampier
Charles Farrell
Clive Dunn
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Cute · astersattract · 2011-09-24
A cute little movie. Not much plot to speak of, but it's supposed to be a light-hearted comedy anyway. Good performances from the main characters.
★★★ · These Boys Are Naughty, But Fun · Poohbah70 · 2019-06-30
Will Hay wrote and stars (Dr. Alec Smart) in this mildly entertaining piece of work - a lot of nonsense strung together by the thinnest of plots that let's Hay do what he did best - bumble and mumble about clumsily and occasionally smirk. Gordon Harker (Faker Brown) is always good and Norma Varden (Lady Dorking) was particularly good. The bulk of the story involves a diamond necklace stolen from Lady Dorking at its peregrination from pocket to pocket to decanter to pocket to rugby ball - and the attempts by the thief Faker Brown and his schoolboy son to finally lay their hands on it. A lot of…
