Boys Will Be Boys (1935)
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.
Director: William Beaudine
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Will Hay as Dr. Alec Smart |
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Gordon Harker as Faker Brown |
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Jimmy Hanley as Cyril Brown |
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Davy Burnaby as Col. Crableigh |
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Norma Varden as Lady Dorking |
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Claude Dampier as Theo P. Finch |
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Charles Farrell as Louis Brown |
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Clive Dunn as Schoolboy watching rugby (uncredited) |
| Sound | Bretton Byrd | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Louis Levy | Original Music Composer |
| Directing | William Beaudine | Director |
| Writing | Will Hay | Writer |
| Editing | Alfred Roome | Editor |
| Art | Alex Vetchinsky | Art Direction |
| Writing | Robert Edmunds | Writer |
| Camera | Charles Van Enger | Director of Photography |
