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Oh, Mr. Porter! is a British film of genre Comedy directed by Roy Ward Baker with Stanley Holloway

Oh, Mr. Porter! (1937)

Oh, Mr. Porter!
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Length 1h25
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Genres Comedy
Rating73% 3.6912153.6912153.6912153.6912153.691215

Oh, Mr Porter! (1937) is a British comedy film starring Will Hay with Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt and directed by Marcel Varnel. While not Hay's most commercially successful (although it grossed £500,000 at the box office), it is probably his best-known film to modern audiences. It is widely acclaimed as the best of Hay's work, and a classic of its genre. The film had its first public showing in November 1937 and went on general release on 3 January 1938.
The plot of Oh, Mr Porter was loosely based on the Arnold Ridley play The Ghost Train. The title was taken from Oh! Mr Porter, a music hall song.

Synopsis

William Porter (Will Hay) is an inept railway worker who – due to family connections – is given the job of stationmaster at a remote and ramshackle rural Northern Irish railway station in the (fictitious) town of Buggleskelly, situated on the border with the then Irish Free State.

Actors

Stanley Holloway
Will Hay

(William Porter)George Relph
Graham Moffatt

(Albert Brown)Moore Marriott

(Jeremiah Harbottle)
And :
Sebastian Smith
Dennis Wyndham
Frederick Piper
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