THOSE WERE THE DAYS
1934

Will Hay is Magistrate of the London Police Court and after a wild evening at the Majestic Music Hall discovers that his wife and sister-in-law have been arrested and will appear before him for sentencing.

CLASSIC BRITISH COMEDY
Starring
Will Hay
Iris Hoey
Angela Baddeley
and John Mills.

Mainly notable (a) because of its depiction of the music hall as seen by a generation which knew it intimately (b) because of its use of music hall acts of the time and (c) because it gave Will Hay his first film role.

PLOT:
A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' (written in 1885) in which the son (John Mills) of a stern magistrate (Will Hay) visits a music hall against the wishes of his father. In true farcical style, the magistrate too ends up at the music hall, and before long all the characters are trying to avoid each other...

CAST:
Will Hay ... Magistrate  Brutus Poskett
Iris Hoey ... Agatha  Poskett
Angela Baddeley ... Charlotte  Verrinder
Claud Allister ... Capt. Horace  Vale
George Graves ... Col. Alexander  Lukyn
John Mills ... Bobby Poskett
Jane Carr ... Minnie Taylor
Marguerite Allan ... Eve Douglas
H.F. Maltby ... Mr. Bullamy
Laurence Hanray ... Wormington
Syd Crossley ... Wyke
Wally Patch ... Insp. Briggs (as Walter Patch)
Jimmy Godden ... Pat Maloney
Harry Bedford ... Himself
Lily Morris ... Herself

Directed by Thomas Bentley

RUNNING TIME: 80 MIN