Home | Movies By Year | Movies from 1938
Oh Boy! (1938 film)
Buy Oh Boy! (1938 film) now from AmazonFirst, read the Wikipedia article. Then, scroll down to see what other TopShelfReviews readers thought about the movie. And once you've experienced the movie, tell everyone what you thought about it.
Wikipedia article
'Oh Boy!' is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Albert Burdon, Mary Lawson and Bernard Nedell. It was made at Elstree Studios by ABPC.Wood p.96 The film's sets were designed by the art director John Mead.
Synopsis
Percy Flower, a young chemist, takes his girlfriend to watch his Beefeater father on parade at the Tower of London, but she is stolen away by an assertive, taller man. Percy is then given a secret formula by an eccentric inventor which makes him extremely confident, strong and energetic. However once Percy starts suffering the side effect, which reduces him back to childhood, his father urgently tries to find the Professor again to get the antidote. Eventually Percy is restored to his true self, managing both to win back his girlfriend and to foil a plot by some American gangsters to steal the Crown Jewels.
Cast
* Albert Burdon as Percy Flower
* Mary Lawson as June Messenger
* Bernard Nedell as Angelo Tonelli
* Jay Laurier as Horatio Flower
* Robert Cochran as Albert Bolsover
* Edmon Ryan as Butch
* Maire O'Neill as Mrs. Baggs
* Syd Walker as Sergeant
* Charles Carson as Governor
* Jerry Verno as Shopwalker
* John Wood as Man
* Billy Milton as Conductor
* Edmund D'Alby
* Boris Ranevsky
References
Bibliography
* Low, Rachael. 'Filmmaking in 1930s Britain'. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
* Wood, Linda. 'British Films, 1927-1939'. British Film Institute, 1986.
Buy Oh Boy! (1938 film) now from Amazon
<-- Return to movies from 1938