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Those Were the Days is a British film of genre Comedy directed by Thomas Bentley with Will Hay

Those Were the Days (1934)

Those Were the Days
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Length 1h20
Directed by
Genres Comedy,    Musical
Rating65% 3.275683.275683.275683.275683.27568

Those Were the Days is a 1934 British film primarily remembered as Will Hay's first major screen role. It was based on Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's 1885 farce The Magistrate and was the first of two Hay movies based on Pinero's plays, the other being Dandy Dick. The movie also featured music hall acts of the time - acts of a type rarely committed to film.

Synopsis

Strait-laced Magistrate Brutus Poskett (Will Hay) is concerned that his wife (Iris Hoey) may be older than he believes her to be, especially as his young stepson (John Mills) seems very precocious for an apparently fifteen-year-old boy.

Actors

Will Hay

(Magistrate Brutus Poskett)Iris Hoey

(Agatha Poskett)Angela Baddeley

(Charlotte)Claud Allister

(Capt. Horace Vale)John Mills

(Bobby Poskett)
And :
Jane Carr
Laurence Hanray
Syd Crossley
Wally Patch
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