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Those Were the Days (1934 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Those Were the Days' is a 1934 British film directed by Thomas Bentley. It was based on 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 film also features music hall acts of the timeThe film features the music hall acts of Lily Morris, Harry Bedford, the gymnasts Gaston & Andre, Sam Curtis and Frank Boston & Betty, together with a blackface performer erroneously claimed to be G. H. Elliott. acts of a type rarely committed to film. It is primarily remembered as Will Hay's first major screen role.
Plot summary
The 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.
Mrs Poskett tries to stop an impending visit from her first husband's friend (Claud Allister), who knows her true age, by confronting him at a local music hall. However, unbeknown to her, Poskett has also been persuaded to go to the music hall with his "adolescent" stepson and, in an ensuing mele Poskett's wife and her sister are arrested.
The following day, Poskett sentences both to seven days imprisonment, failing to recognise them as they are heavily veiled.
Cast
* Will Hay as Magistrate Brutus Poskett
* Iris Hoey as Agatha Poskett
* Angela Baddeley as Charlotte
* Claud Allister as Capt. Horace Vale
* George Graves as Col. Alexander Lukyn
* John Mills as Bobby
* Jane Carr as Minnie Taylor
* Marguerite Allan as Eve Douglas
* H. F. Maltby as Mr. Bullamy
* Laurence Hanray as Wormington
* Syd Crossley as Wyke
* Wally Patch as Insp. Briggs
* Jimmy Godden as Pat Maloney
References
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