Those Were the Days (1934 film)

Infobox Film
name = Those were the Days


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director = Thomas Bentley
producer = Walter C. Mycroft
writer = Jack Jordan
Frank Launder
Frederick A. Thompson
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starring = Will Hay
Iris Hoey
John Mills
Angela Baddeley
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cinematography = Otto Kanturek
editing = Edward B. Jarvis
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released = flagicon|UK April 1934
runtime = 80 minutes
country = UK
language = English
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imdb_id = 0024659

"Those were the Days" (1934) is a film primarily remembered as Will Hay's first major film role. It was based on the farce "The Magistrate" written by playwright Sir Arthur Wing Pinero in 1885, and was the first of two Hay movies that were based Pinero's plays, the other being Dandy Dick. The movie also featured music hall acts of the time [The film features the music hall acts of Lily Morris, Harry Bedford, the gymnasts Gaston & Andre, G.H.Elliott, Sam Curtis and Frank Boston & Betty.] - acts of a type rarely committed to film.

ynopsis

Strait-laced Magistrate Brutus Poskett (Will Hay) is concerned that his wife may be older than he believes her to be, especially as his young stepson (John Mills) seems very precocious for an apparently fifteen year old boy.

With a friend of Mrs Poskett's first husband (who knows her true age) coming to visit, Mrs Poskett (Iris Hoey) tries to stop the visit by confronting him at a local music hall. Unknown to her though, Poskett has also been convinced to go to the music hall and in the ensuing melee, Poskett's wife and her sister are arrested.

The following day, Poskett sentences both to seven days imprisonment, failing to recognise them as they are heavily veiled.

Cast

*Will Hay as Magistrate Brutus Poskett
*Iris Hoey as Agatha Poskett
*Angela Baddeley as Charlotte
*Claud Allister as Capt. Horace Vale
*George Graves as Col. Alexader Lukyn
*John Mills as Bobby
*Jane Carr as Minnie Taylor
*Marguerite Allan as Eve Douglas
*H.F. Maltby as Mr. Bullamy
*Laurence Hanray as Wormington
*Syd Crossley as Wyke
*Wally Patch as Insp. Briggs
*Jimmy Godden as Pat Maloney

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External links

*imdb title|id=0024659|title=Those were the Days