GOOD MORNING BOYS (1937) Will Hay, Marita Hunt & Peter Gawthorne | Comedy | B&W

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 made at the Gainsborough Studios in Islington.

SYNOPSIS
A schoolteacher and his pupils visit Paris where they outwit a gang of crooks.

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 & CREW
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

Directed by Marcel Varnel
Written by Leslie Arliss, Marriott Edgar
Produced by Edward Black
Cinematography Arthur Crabtree
Edited by R.E. Dearing, Alfred Roome
Music by Louis Levy, Jack Beaver
Production company Gainsborough Pictures
Distributed by Gaumont British Distributors
Release date January 1937
Running time 79 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English

NOTES
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.