Movie: Boys Will Be Boys

Top 8 Billed Cast

Will Hay
Will Hay

Dr. Alec Smart

Gordon Harker
Gordon Harker

Faker Brown

Jimmy Hanley
Jimmy Hanley

Cyril Brown

Davy Burnaby
Davy Burnaby

Col. Crableigh

Norma Varden
Norma Varden

Lady Dorking

Claude Dampier
Claude Dampier

Theo P. Finch

Charles Farrell
Charles Farrell

Louis Brown

Clive Dunn
Clive Dunn

Schoolboy watching rugby (uncredited)

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    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.

  • Release Date

    1935-07-01

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