Stars: Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Edgar Kennedy, Tommy Bupp

Director: Marcel Varnel

Summary: A double lesson with Will Hay's Dr. Twist the schoolteacher. Here he takes pupils to Paris where they foil a gang of crooks in GOOD MORNING, BOYS. While he finds himself all at sea when he wakes up as a stowaway on board ship in HEY! HEY! USA! Part of the Will Hay double-bill series.

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In 1937's Good Morning Boys Will Hay plays the pompous but ill-qualified headmaster of St Michael's, Dr Benjamin Twist, who befuddles his class with meaningless mathematical equations while they set their wits to constructing booby traps for him. However, when his boys pass an inter-schools examination, having seen the French paper in advance, they're invited by the French educational authorities to Paris and become involved in a plot to steal the Mona Lisa. Although it is at times too silly plot-wise even for those with a high endurance for farce, Good Morning, Boys is another fine showcase for Hay to display his well-honed repertoire of tics, double-takes and blathering half-sense.

In Hey! Hey! USA!, a 1938 comedy intended to boost Hay's stock in America, he again plays Dr Twist who becomes tutor to millionaire's son Bernie Schulz aboard an Atlantic liner. Predictably the boy knows more about all aspects of history than Hay, having to remind him that Britain lost in the War of Independence against America. "Yes, but we sent our second eleven," Hay reminds him, "And we were playing away." Further capers ensue when two rival gangs attempt to capture the precocious lad, with his parents dispatching Hay to pass on the ransom money. Hey! Hey! USA!has its moments, but despite the presence of old Laurel and Hardy sidekicks Edgar Kennedy (as a dim-witted gangster) and Charlie Hall, this was too leaky a comedic vessel to transport Hay's peculiarly British UK success across the Atlantic.

On the DVD: Good Morning Boys and Hey! Hey! USA! are presented on disc well restored from their original 1930s film stock, give or take the odd crackle. There are no extras except scene index. --David Stubbs

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Hard of Hearing Subtitles - English
Year:	1937
Release Date:	August 11, 2003
Runtime:	167 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	37115 01513
Keywords:	Will, Boys, Comedy, Usa, General, Morning, Good, Hey, A, Hay, U, S
Genre:	Comedy