Convict 99

Convict 99
Convict 99
Directed by Marcel Varnel
Produced by Edward Black
Written by Jack Davis Jr
Marriott Edgar
Val Guest
Ralph Smart
Starring Will Hay
Graham Moffatt
Moore Marriott
Googie Withers
Cinematography Arthur Crabtree
Editing by R.E. Dearing
Distributed by Gainsborough Pictures
Release date(s) 26 September 1938
Running time 91 minutes
Country  United Kingdom
Language English

Convict 99 is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring British comedian Will Hay and Googie Withers.

Synopsis

Incompetent Dr Benjamin Twist (Will Hay) is dismissed from his job as headmaster at St. Michaels' School (the school returns in a later film The Ghost of St. Michael's), and applies for a job in another school.

Going for interview, he is called into another office where they are expecting John Benjamin, a strict prison governor recently arrived from Australia who is applying for the vacancy at Blakedown Prison in Devon. On the way to what Twist believes is the school, he becomes drunk, and on arrival is mistaken for Max Slessor, a prisoner who had escaped during a jailbreak.

Designated Convict 99 and in for seven years for forgery, Twist is soon discovered to be the new Prison Governor, and once put in his (dubiously) rightful place embarks on a programme to make the prison a more friendly place for the prisoners, funding it from the proceeds of a football pools win and stock market investments.

Things take a turn for the worse, when the recaptured Slessor, aided by a phoney baroness who accuses Twist of attempted rape, escapes again with a signed cheque. Altering the figures, he draws the entire prison funds from the bank. Twist and some of the convicts head in a prison van to Limehouse, in east London, to catch Slessor, recover the lost funds and then successfully break into the bank in the middle of the night to return the money.

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v · d · eThe films of Will Hay
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v · d · eThe films of Marcel Varnel
1930s
The Silent Witness (1932) • Chandu the Magician (1932) • Infernal Machine (1933) • Freedom of the Seas (1934) • Girls Will Be Boys (1934) • Royal Cavalcade (1935) • Dance Band (1935) • I Give My Heart (1935) • No Monkey Business (1935) • All In (1936) • Public Nuisance No. 1 (1936) • Good Morning, Boys (1937) • Oh, Mr. Porter! (1937) • Convict 99 (1938) • Alf's Button Afloat (1938) • Hey! Hey! USA (1938) • Old Bones of the River (1938) • Ask a Policeman (1939) • The Frozen Limits (1939)
1940s
Where's That Fire? (1940) • O-Kay for Sound (1940) • Band Waggon (1940) • Let George Do It (1940) • Neutral Port (1940) • Gasbags (1941) • The Ghost of St. Michael's (1941) • Turned Out Nice Again (1941) • I Thank You (1941) • South American George (1941) • Hi Gang! (1941) • Much Too Shy (1942) • King Arthur Was a Gentleman (1942) • Get Cracking (1943) • He Snoops to Conquer (1944) • Bell-Bottom George (1944) • I Didn't Do It (1945) • George in Civvy Street (1946) This Man Is Mine (1946) •

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