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Bookmark this pageMy Learned Friend (1943)
Director: Basil Dearden, Will Hay
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From Time Out Film Guide
A slightly desperate but surprisingly funny farce, agreeably tinged with black. Will Hay's last film, in which, as an incompetent barrister being kept till last as a bonne bouche by a criminal (Johns) determined to eliminate everyone connected with his trial, he frantically tries to forewarn the other victims in an attempt to stave off his own end. The dizzy climax, courtesy Harold Lloyd and/or Hitchcock, is a pursuit over the face and hands of Big Ben.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Basil Dearden, Will Hay
Producer: Michael Balcon
Cast: Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Mervyn Johns, Ernest Thesiger, Charles Victor, Hy Hazell, Lloyd Pearson full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 76 mins
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