Good Morning, Boys

Good Morning, Boys

Directed by	Marcel Varnel
Produced by	Edward Black
Written by	Leslie Arliss Marriott Edgar
Starring	Will Hay Graham Moffatt
Music by	Louis Levy
Cinematography	Arthur Crabtree
Edited by	R.E. Dearing Alfred Roome
Production company	Gainsborough Pictures
Distributed by	Gaumont British Distributors
Release dates	January 1937 (1937-01)
Running time	79 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Good Morning, Boys is a 1937 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and featuring Will Hay, Martita Hunt, Lilli Palmer and Peter Gawthorne. It was made at the Gainsborough Studios in Islington.^[1]

Plot

Will Hay plays the roguish headmaster, Dr Twist, of a dubious boarding school for boys. Twist bets on the horses with his pupils and teaches them little. Colonel Willoughby-Gore attempts to sack the incompetent Twist but is foiled when he and his boys, after fraudulently gaining resounding success in a French examination, are invited to Paris by the French ministry of education.

In Paris they become involved with a gang of criminals, including escaped convict Arty Jones, father of one of the boys, and Yvette, a night club singer, who are attempting to steal the Mona Lisa from the Louvre and replace it with a duplicate.

Cast

Will Hay as Dr Benjamin Twist
Martita Hunt as Lady Bagshott
Peter Gawthorne as Col. Willoughby-Gore
Graham Moffatt as Albert Brown
Fewlass Llewellyn as The Dean
Mark Daly as Arty Jones
Peter Godfrey as Cliquot
C. Denier Warren as Minister of Education
Lilli Palmer as Yvette
Charles Hawtrey as Septimus
George Ravenscroft as one of the boys

Critical reception

Allmovie wrote, "the magnificent Will Hay re-creates his vaudeville characterization of a supercilious schoolmaster...But the inimitable, toothless Moore Marriott (aka "Harbottle") is conspicuous by his absence." ^[2]

References

↑ Wood p.90
↑ "Good Morning, Boys (1937) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast". AllMovie. Retrieved 2014-03-22.

Bibliography

Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

External links

Good Morning, Boys at the Internet Movie Database
Good Morning, Boys is available for free download at the Internet Archive

Films directed by Marcel Varnel

The Silent Witness (1932)
Chandu the Magician (1932)
Infernal Machine (1933)
Freedom of the Seas (1934)
Girls Will Be Boys (1934)
Royal Cavalcade (1935)
Dance Band (1935)
The Loves of Madame Dubarry (1935)
No Monkey Business (1935)
All In (1936)
Public Nuisance No. 1 (1936)
Good Morning, Boys (1937)
Oh, Mr Porter! (1937)
Convict 99 (1938)
Alf's Button Afloat (1938)
Hey! Hey! USA (1938)
Old Bones of the River (1938)
Ask a Policeman (1939)
The Frozen Limits (1939)
Where's That Fire? (1940)
O-Kay for Sound (1940)
Band Waggon (1940)
Let George Do It! (1940)
Neutral Port (1940)
Gasbags (1941)
The Ghost of St. Michael's (1941)
Turned Out Nice Again (1941)
I Thank You (1941)
South American George (1941)
Hi Gang! (1941)
Much Too Shy (1942)
King Arthur Was a Gentleman (1942)
Get Cracking (1943)
He Snoops to Conquer (1944)
Bell-Bottom George (1944)
I Didn't Do It (1945)
George in Civvy Street (1946)
This Man Is Mine (1946)

Screenplays by Marriott Edgar

Screenplays	Windbag the Sailor (1936) Oh, Mr Porter! (1937) Good Morning, Boys (1937) Said O'Reilly to McNab (1937) Convict 99 (1938) Alf's Button Afloat (1938) Old Bones of the River (1938) Ask a Policeman (1939) The Frozen Limits (1939) Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt (1940) Band Waggon (1940) Where's That Fire? (1940) The Ghost Train (1941) Gasbags (1941) I Thank You (1941) Back-Room Boy (1942) King Arthur Was a Gentleman (1942) Miss London Ltd. (1943) Bees in Paradise (1944)

Family	Edgar Wallace (half-brother)

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