Where There's a Will (movie)
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| Where There's a Will | |
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| Directed by | William Beaudine |
| Produced by | Michael Balcon |
| Written by | Robert Edmunds Will Hay William Beaudine |
| Starring | Will Hay H.F. Maltby Graham Moffatt Norma Varden |
| Music by | Bretton Byrd |
| Cinematography | Charles Van Enger |
| Editing by | Terence Fisher |
| Distributed by | Gainsborough Pictures |
| Release date(s) |  10 August 1936 |
| Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
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Where There's a Will features an incompetent solicitor who unwittingly becomes party to a bank robbery.
[edit] Plot outline
Will Hay plays the bungling solictor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find an insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, which Hay confiscates.
Stubbins later takes a job from a group of Americans who claim they want him to track down some ancestors of theirs in Scotland. In reality however they want to use his office so they can rob a safe in the room immediately below his office. Stubbins takes the job (which is designed to keep him out of the office).
In the end Stubbins realises his mistake and at a Christmas Eve fancy dress party he informs a group of carol singing policeman about the Americans nefarious activities.
[edit] Cast
Will Hay - Benjamin Stubbins
Graham Moffatt - Willie the office boy
Norma Varden - Lady Margaret Wimpleton
Hartley Power - Duke Wilson
Gina Malo - Goldie Kelly
H.F.Maltby - Sir Roger Wimpleton
Peggy Simpson - Barbara Stubbins
Gibb McLauglin - Martin
Eddie Houghton - Slug
Hal Waters - Nick
John Turnbull - Detective Collins
Sybil Brooke - Landlady
Davina Craig - Lucie
Mickey Brantford - Jimmy
Henry Adnes - Pawnbroker
Frederick Piper - Fingerprint expert
