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Boys Will Be Boys is a British film of genre Comedy directed by William Beaudine with Will Hay

Boys Will Be Boys (1935)

Boys Will Be Boys
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Length 1h20
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Genres Comedy
Rating64% 3.240113.240113.240113.240113.24011

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, where Narkover is a school specializing in gambling and extortion, and the headmaster is a "Dr. Smart-Allick".

Synopsis

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 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.

Actors

Will Hay

(Dr. Alec Smart)Gordon Harker

(Faker Brown)Jimmy Hanley

(Cyril Brown)Davy Burnaby

(Col. Crableigh)Norma Varden

(Lady Dorking)
And :
Claude Dampier
Clive Dunn
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