Good Morning, Boys

Good Morning, Boys! is a 1937 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and featuring Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Martita Hunt, Lilli Palmer and Peter Gawthorne. It was made at the Gainsborough Studios in Islington.

The film marked the first appearance of both Peter Gawthorne and Charles Hawtrey in a Will Hay film, both of whom would go onto act as straight men to Hay in his future films.

Plot
Will Hay plays the roguish headmaster, Dr Twist, of a dubious boarding school for boys. Twist bets on the horses with his pupils and teaches them little. Colonel Willoughby-Gore attempts to sack the incompetent Twist but is foiled when he and his boys, after fraudulently gaining resounding success in a French examination, are invited to Paris by the French ministry of education.

In Paris they become involved with a gang of criminals, including escaped convict Arty Jones, father of one of the boys, and Yvette, a night club singer, who are attempting to steal the Mona Lisa from the Louvre and replace it with a duplicate.

Cast

 * Will Hay as Dr Benjamin Twist
 * Martita Hunt as Lady Bagshott
 * Peter Gawthorne as Col. Willoughby-Gore
 * Graham Moffatt as Albert Brown
 * Fewlass Llewellyn as The Dean
 * Mark Daly as Arty Jones
 * Peter Godfrey as Cliquot
 * C. Denier Warren as Minister of Education
 * Lilli Palmer as Yvette
 * Charles Hawtrey as Septimus
 * George Ravenscroft as one of the boys

Critical reception
Allmovie wrote, "the magnificent Will Hay re-creates his vaudeville characterization of a supercilious schoolmaster...But the inimitable, toothless Moore Marriott (aka "Harbottle") is conspicuous by his absence."