Convict 99

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Convict 99 is a comedy film starring British comedian Will Hay produced in 1938.

[edit] Plot

Dr. Benjamin Twist (Hay) is dismissed from his job as teacher in St. Michaels' School (the school returns in a later film The Ghost of St. Michaels), and applies for a job in another school.

Unknowingly, Twist is confused at the Labour Exchange for John Benjamin, who is applying for the vacancy of the fictious Blakedown Prison in Devon. On the way to what Twist believes is the school, he becomes drunk, and is mistaken for a prisoner who escaped during a jailbreak.

Designated Convict 99 and sentenced to seven years for forgery, Twist is soon discovered to be the new Prison Governor, and soon makes the prison a more friendly place for the prisoners, and in the process, helps to stop another jailbreak.

[edit] Trivia

Hays' two main co-stars, Graham Moffatt and Moore Marriott, appear in the forms of Albert the Prison Guard and Convict 198, alias Jerry the Mole.

Roddy McDowall appears in a bit part.