5.8

Back-Room Boy

1947, UK

• Actors: Arthur Askey, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Googie Withers, Vera Frances, Joyce Howard, John Salew, George Merritt, Eileen Bennett, Philip Friend, Aubrey Mallalieu, D.J. Williams
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): Herbert Mason
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A lowly BBC employee pulls a prank at the studio and finds himself transferred to an isolated island where he is to set up a weather station at a lighthouse. As if in a fantasy, a ship carrying a bevy of beautiful models is shipwrecked off the coast and the models wind up on the island. However, when the models begin disappearing, the "back-room boy" investigates and finds a sinister scheme involving spies and Nazi battleships.

  6.8

Where's That Fire?

1940, UK

• Actors: Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Peter Gawthorne, Eric Clavering, Hugh McDermott, Charles Hawtrey, Dave O'Toole, Frank Atkinson, George Carney, Wilson Coleman, David Keir, Sebastian Smith, Charles Victor
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): Marcel Varnel
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A hapless fire crew are given the ultimatum: put out a fire successfully or else be sacked. They fail miserably, and their ancient fire engine is stolen by criminals attempting to steal the crown jewels from the Tower of London.

  7.2

Ask a Policeman

1938, UK

• Actors: Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott, Glennis Lorimer, Peter Gawthorne, Charles Oliver, Herbert Lomas, Patrick Aherne, Cyril Chamberlain, Noel Dainton, Desmond Llewelyn, Dave O'Toole, Brian Worth
• Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
• Director(s): Marcel Varnel
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Turnbottom Round prides itself as the village without crime; there has not been an arrest recorded by the local police for years. Unfortunately, this is more to do with the inability of Sgt Dudfoot and his constables Jerry and Harbottle to so much as recognise a crime. With their jobs on the line, the trio attempt to stage a crime of their own, only to inadvertently uncover a smuggling ring and a headless horseman...

  6.9

Convict 99

1938, UK

• Actors: Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Googie Withers, Peter Gawthorne, Basil Radford, Dennis Wyndham, Wilfred Walter, Alf Goddard, Garry Marsh, Graham Soutten, Teddy Brown, Kathleen Harrison, Roy Emerton, Bertha Belmore, Clifford Buckton, Noel Dainton, Roddy McDowall, Basil McGrail, George Merritt, Bernard Miles, Charles Paton, Leonard Sharp, Harry Terry
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): Marcel Varnel
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals. Believing he is being sent to a school rather than a prison, he celebrates accordingly only to find that his drunkenness accidently lands him on the wrong side of the prison bars. The Governorship is eventually restored to him, and he sets about popularising himself amongst the convicts by turning a blind eye to their shady dealings.

  7.4

Oh, Mr. Porter!

1937, UK

• Actors: Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Sebastian Smith, Agnes Lauchlan, Percy Walsh, Dennis Wyndham, Dave O'Toole, Frank Atkinson, Bryan Herbert, Betty Jardine, Frederick Lloyd, Frederick Piper, Charles Rolfe, Beatrice Varley
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): Marcel Varnel
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Through the influence of a relative, a hopeless railway employee is made stationmaster the sleepy Irish station of Buggleskelly. Determined to make his mark, he devises a number of schemes to put Buggleskelly on the railway map, but instead falls foul of a gang of gun runners.

  6.8

Windbag the Sailor

1936, UK

• Actors: Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Norma Varden, Kenneth Warrington, Dennis Wyndham, Amy Veness, Peter Gawthorne, George Merritt, Charles Rolfe, Leonard Sharp, Harry Terry, Percy Walsh
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): William Beaudine
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who means to have it wrecked. This was the first film to couple Will Hay with both Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt.