My Learned Friend

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My Learned Friend is a British film comedy starring Will Hay. Hay also co-directed this 1943 film, along with regular collaborator Basil Dearden. The supporting cast included Claude Hulbert, Mervyn Johns and Ernest Thesiger.

[edit] Plot

Hay plays a seedy lawyer who finds himself marked for assassination by a criminal he unsuccessfully defended in the past. He teams up with an incompetent solicitor to try and prevent the deaths of other involved.

The film climaxes with a sequence where Hay hangs from the hands of the clock face of Big Ben in an attempt to prevent a time bomb being detonated. This scene was later borrowed for the 1978 version of The Thirty-Nine Steps and for the Jackie Chan film Shanghai Knights in 2003.

[edit] External link

• My Learned Friend at the Internet Movie Database