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English. Boys Will Be Boys is a 1935 British comedy film directed by William Beaudine which stars Will Hay, Gordon Harker and Jimmy Hanley. The film is set at Narkover School, where headmaster Doctor Alec Smart ( Will Hay) becomes involved in the disappearance of a valuable necklace. The setting is loosely based on the works of Beachcomber ...
Boys Will Be Boys: Directed by William Beaudine. With Will Hay, Gordon Harker, Jimmy Hanley, Davy Burnaby. Will Hay is a teacher in a prison, who applies for the Headship of Narkover, a public school.
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- Comedy
- William Beaudine
- 1935-12-09
Nov 30, 2010 · Boys Will Be Boys (1935) Usage. Public Domain Mark 1.0. Topics. Will Hay, Gordon Harker, Jimmy Hanley, Davy Burnaby, Norma Varden, Claude Dampier, Charles Farrell, Percy Walsh, Charles Hawtrey, Mystic Nights Videos. Dr. Alec Smart (Will Hay) is a teacher in a prison. He applies for the headmaster of public school Narkover.
Will Hay is a teacher in a prison, who applies for the Headship of Narkover, a public school. This is the first screen appearance of Hay in his (to be ) famous schoolmaster role, in a story based on Dr Smart-Alec, the character created by John Cameron Andrieu Bingham Michael Morton (J.B. Morton, "Beachcomber") —Michael Crew <m.crew@bbcnc.org.uk>
The trustee who works as the Governor's secretary, Faker Brown, "accidentally" gets the two letters mixed up and delivers the one praising Smart. On the basis of the letter, Lady Dorking, the who runs the Board of Governors appoints Smart to the job. This angers her deputy, Colonel Crableigh, who had favoured promoting his nephew, the Deputy head.
The film set the template for Hay's cinematic character of the seedy incompetent, conning his way into positions of authority. A stickler for detail, Hay shaved his head daily rather than wear a scratch wig, performed his own stunts (including being dragged along behind a taxi) and roughed it up with his fellow rugby players for the film's ...
