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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,
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Boys Will Be Boys is a 1935 film starring Will Hay, Gordon Harker, Jimmy Hanley. An incompetent headmaster thwarts a jewel robber.
The 1935 British comedy movie Boys will be Boys is one of the most popular films of its era, and for good reason. Starring Will Hay, Gordon Harker, and Jimmy Hanley, it tells the story of Dr. Benjamin Twist (Hay), a schoolmaster who believes he has discovered a new mathematical formula that will make him famous.
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 ...
The film is set at Narkover School, where headmaster Doctor Alec Smart becomes involved in the disappearance of a valuable necklace. Boys Will Be Boys is a 1935 British comedy film directed by William Beaudine which stars Will Hay, Gordon Harker and Jimmy Hanley.
Will Hay's fourth film, and the first of the ten films in his golden period with Gainsborough Studios, introduced to the screen his popular characterisation of the schoolmaster. Hay had made his professional debut in 1909 and, with a series of sketches the crafty and irascible head of the fictitious St Michael's, became one of variety's top-drawer acts for over 25 years.
