Rent Where There's a Will (1936)
3.4 of 5 from 57 ratings
1h 20min
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- Synopsis:
- Will Hay is one of the greatest British comedians of all time and his misanthropic antics have inspired many great funny men. A major star of the 1930s, he relished playing pompous, incompetent authority figures. Solicitor Hay is the black sheep of his rich, snobbish family and Graham Moffatt is his indolent clerk. With no clients to speak of, the pair instead get caught up with American gangsters and their plans for robbery.
- Actors:
- Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, H.F. Maltby, Norma Varden, Peggy Simpson, Gibb McLaughlin, Gina Malo, Hartley Power, Eddie Houghton, Hal Walters, John Turnbull, Sybil Brooke, Davina Craig
- Directors:
- William Beaudine
- Producers:
- Michael Balcon
- Writers:
- Leslie Arliss, Sidney Gilliat, Will Hay, Robert Edmunds, William Beaudine
- Studio:
- Carlton Video
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy
- Collections:
- A Brief History of Film..., Topping the Music Hall Bill
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A Chimney Haystack - Where There's a Will review by CH
Or, the put it another way, where there's a Will Hay, there's sure to be an entertaining variant upon a bumbling man who finds himself caught up in something larger and surely of dodgier legality than he is aware.
True to form, this time he is a dim, widowed solictor whose decaying premises happen to be above a bank which is the target of some American crooks who need him out of the way for a while. In an unexpected turn he is the father of a surprisingly pretty young woman who is being looked after at a relation's smart country house. How this fits into a plot which also includes, unusually for a Hay film, a chic London hotel is something for any viewer to savour as events build towards the high farce of Christmas Eve and a chimneyplace.
Here is a film in which, for the rest of us, presents arrive early: another succession of gags and proposterous but seemingly logical situations. Although Oh! Mr. Porter might be Hay's zenith, each of his films is diverting.
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