Boys Will Be Boys
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Alec Smart, who is engaged teaching in a prison, applies for the job of headmaster at a nearby public school to replace the previous headmaster who has been convicted of writing forged cheques and has just been sent to prison. Smart appeals to the Governor to write him a good reference which he pretends to. Afterwards he writes his real recommendation which is very negative about Smart's talents. The trustee who works as the Governor's secretary, Faker Brown, "accidentally" gets the two letters mixed up and delivers the one praising Smart. On the basis of the letter, Lady Dorking, the who runs the Board of Governors appoints Smart to the job. This angers her deputy, Colonel Crableigh, who had favoured promoting his nephew, the Deputy head.
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Will Hay
Dr. Alec Smart
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Gordon Harker
Faker Brown
Known for
Champagne
The Farmer's Wife
Jimmy Hanley
Cyril Brown
Known for
The Blue Lamp
Gaslight
Davy Burnaby
Col. Crableigh
Also in
Radio Parade of 1935
The Right to Live
Norma Varden
Lady Dorking
Known for
Witness for the Prosecution
Strangers on a Train
Claude Dampier
Theo P. Finch
Also in
She Shall Have Music
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Charles Farrell
Louis Brown
Known for
Night and the City
They Made Me a Fugitive
Clive Dunn
Schoolboy watching rugby (uncredited)
Known for
Dad's Army
Dad's Army
William Beaudine Director · Will Hay Writer Robert Edmunds Writer
First release July 1, 1935 · Produced in United Kingdom
Production
Gainsborough Pictures
Production
United Kingdom
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United Kingdom · July 1, 1935
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No release date listed for United States.
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