| Good Morning, Boys! | |
| Director: | Marcel Varnel |
| Producer: | Edward Black |
| Starring: | Will Hay Graham Moffatt |
| Music: | Louis Levy Jack Beaver |
| Cinematography: | Arthur Crabtree |
| Editing: | R.E. Dearing Alfred Roome |
| Studio: | Gainsborough Pictures |
| Distributor: | Gaumont British Distributors |
| Runtime: | 79 minutes |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
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.[1]
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.
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.
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]