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Boys Will Be Boys

6.419351h 20mUMovieComedy

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…

DirectorWilliam Beaudine
WritersWill Hay·Robert Edmunds

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Cast · Directed by William Beaudine

WHWill Hay
Will Hay
Dr. Alec Smart
GHGordon Harker
Gordon Harker
Faker Brown
JHJimmy Hanley
Jimmy Hanley
Cyril Brown
DBDavy Burnaby
Davy Burnaby
Col. Crableigh
NVNorma Varden
Norma Varden
Lady Dorking
CD
Claude Dampier
Theo P. Finch
CFCharles Farrell
Charles Farrell
Louis Brown
CDClive Dunn
Clive Dunn
Schoolboy watching rugby (uncredited)

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