Those Were The Days (1933 film)
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| Those were the Days | |
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| Directed by | Thomas Bentley |
| Produced by | Walter C. Mycroft |
| Written by | Jack Jordan Frank Launder Frederick A. Thompson |
| Starring | Will Hay Iris Hoey John Mills Angela Baddeley |
| Cinematography | Otto Kanturek |
| Editing by | Edward B. Jarvis |
| Release date(s) |  April 1934 |
| Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | United Kigdom |
| Language | English |
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Those were the Days is a film primarily remembered as Will Hay's first major film role. The first of two Hay movies based on plays by 19th century playwright Sir Arthur Wing Panero (the other being Dandy Dick) Those were the Days is based on the farce The Magistrate. The movie also featured music hall acts of the time[1] - acts of a type rarely, if ever, committed to film.
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[edit] Synopsis
Strait-laced Magistrate Brutus Poskett (Will Hay) is concerend that his wife may be older than he believes her to be, especially as his young stepson (John Mills) seems very precocious for an apparently fifteen year old boy.
With a friend of Mrs Poskett's first husband (who knows her true age) coming to visit, Mrs Poskett (Iris Hoey) tries to stop the visit by confronting him at a local music hall. Unbeknownst to her though, Poskett has also been convinced to go to the music hall and in the ensuing melee, Poskett's wife and her sister are arrested.
The following day, Poskett sentences both to seven days imprisonment, failing to recognise them as they are heavily veiled.
[edit] Cast
Will Hay - Magistrate Brutus Poskett
Iris Hoey - Agatha Poskett
Angela Baddeley - Charlotte
Claud Allister - Capt. Horace Vale
George Graves - Col. Alexader Lukyn
John Mills - Bobby
Jane Carr - Minnie Taylor
Marguerite Allan - Eve Douglas
H.F. Maltby - Mr. Bullamy
Laurence Hanray - Wormington
Syd Crossley - Wyke
Wally Patch - Insp. Briggs
Jimmy Godden - Pat Maloney
[edit] References
- ^ The film features the music hall acts of Lily Morris, Harry Bedford, the gymnasts Gaston & Andre, G.H.Elliott, Sam Curtis and Frank Boston & Betty.
