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• Radio Parade of 1935 | Blu Ray | (12/10/2020) from £6.09   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Comedy legend Will Hay leads an all-star cast in this whimsical critique of the highbrow state of then-contemporary BBC radio programming. Co-starring Hollywood's Helen Chandler, light comedian Clifford Mollison and noted farceur Alfred Drayton, Radio Parade of 1935 also features celebrated music hall acts Western Brothers, Lilly Morris, Nellie Wallace and Clapham & Dwyer. It is presented here as a brand-new High Definition remaster from original film elements and features two sequences in their original Dufaycolor. William Garland, Director General of the NBG, is in a quandary. Complaints about his radio station's programming are on the increase and he needs to stem the tide. His solution: promote the Head of Complaints to Head of Programmes! SPECIAL FEATURE: Image gallery

• Dandy Dick | DVD | (09/09/2013) from £8.62   |  Saving you £1.37 (15.89%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This 1935 film farce was an early showcase for the comedic brilliance of Will Hay, marking the first of four collaborations with American director William Beaudine. Based on Arthur Wing Pinero's 1887 stage play, Dandy Dick also features a minor role for Moore Marriott, later 'Jeremiah Harbottle' in the hugely successful run of Hay comedies made throughout the thirties. Dandy Dick is presented here in a brand-new transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio....

• Radio Parade of 1935 | DVD | (07/02/2011) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (68.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  One of the first screen outings for Will Hay. Hay plays the Director General of the National Broadcasting Group (NBG) who hides away in his office unaware that the general feeling about his programming is that it is too high-brow and the public are not happy. However, when he discovers this he decides to take action and promotes Jimmy, his Head of the Complaints Department, to Programme Director. Jimmy decides that a series of variety spectaculars are what the public want and sets about hiring the acts. But obstacles are put in his way and he discovers that the NBG has its own cluster of wannabe variety stars.

• Will Hay - Boys Will Be Boys | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Prison teacher Dr. Smart-Alec (Will Hay) steps up the career ladder to become headmaster of Narkover public school but his innate stupidity soon begins to create havoc. Will Hay dons a mortarboard on screen for the first time in the bumbling headmaster role that was to become his trademark.