"Actor: Will Hay"

• The Black Sheep Of Whitehall | DVD | (07/02/2011) from £10.35   |  Saving you £5.64 (54.49%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Will Hay plays a Professor teaching at a correspondence school who discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America. The agent is posing as an economics expert seconded to the trade delegation. The professor must find the real economist and expose the agent.

• Will Hay - Ask A Policeman / Boys Will Be Boys | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £10.49   |  Saving you £2.50 (23.83%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Ask A Policeman: The police force of crime-free Turnbotham Round consists of Sergeant Dudfoot (Will Hay) and officers Harbottle (Moore Marriott) and Albert (Graham Moffatt). When the commissioner suggests that they are no longer necessary they set about engineering a crime wave in the village so that they can be seen to be solving it. Their attempts fail until they stumble upon a genuine case of smuggling... Boys Will Be Boys: Prison teacher Dr. Smart-Alec steps up

• Will Hay - Ask a Policeman | DVD | (28/04/2010) from £5.01   |  Saving you £-0.02 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Classic 1939 Will Hay film. B&W, 74 minutes.

• Best Of British Thrillers | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  First ever DVD box set release of the famous Victorian theatre and film actor - Tod Slaughter who died in 1956. Includes: 1. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 2. Crimes at the Dark House 3. Maria Marten: The Murder in the Red Barn

• Will Hay - Convict 99 | DVD | (30/09/2010) from £6.21   |  Saving you £-1.22 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Will Hay - Convict 99

• Will Hay - Good Morning Boys | DVD | (07/12/2009) from £3.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (25.06%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The headmaster of St Michael's school Dr Benjamin Twist (Will Hay) finds himself in hot water after a government inspection. He is asked to resign unless he can prove that his educational methods work, and so when he comes into possession of the French paper, he does not need much coaxing before showing it to his students. The boys pass with honours, but a congratulatory trip to Paris goes awry when they and Twist inadvertently help to steal the Mona Lisa.

• Will Hay - Old Bones Of The River / Where There's A Will | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Old Bones Of The River: When Professor Benjamin Tibbets travels to Africa up river to open schools for the natives he experiences several setbacks. His new pupils are less than receptive and when the commander of the local base goes down with malaria he takes on his duties as well. Aided by the crew of the boat on which he arrived he sets about collecting taxes from the locals with hilarious results! Where There's A Will: Alcoholic lawyer Benjamin Stubbins is deep

• Will Hay - Where Theres a Will | DVD | (07/12/2009) from £3.19   |  Saving you £1.80 (56.43%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Will Hay - Where There's A Will

• Make 'Em Laugh | DVD | (19/10/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Revel in 150 minutes of pure comic brilliance with this six-part series featuring some of Britain's greatest comedy icons!Digging deep into the archives, Make 'Em Laugh features many of British film's favourite comic moments from hilarious horror spoofs to farcical crime capers! Arranged thematically, this series features excerpts from an array of classics and showcases the comedy genius of Alastair Sim, Frankie Howerd, Terry-Thomas, John Cleese, Benny Hill, Will Hay, Kenneth Williams, Harry H. Corbett, Wilfrid Brambell, Mollie Sugden, Leslie Phillips, Marty Feldman, Warren Mitchell, Dick Emery and Sid James.The films covered in this series include:Up Pompeii!Steptoe and SonThe RebelTill Death Us Do PartHoliday on the BusesClockwiseThe Great St. Trinian's Train RobberyAre You Being Served?Every Home Should Have OneRhubarbOoh, You Are AwfulThe Ghost of St. Michael'sand numerous Carry Ons!

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

  Ask a Policeman is arguably Will Hay's all-round best film, not so much for the qualities of his familiar star performance but for the mix of laughs and thrills in the manner of The Ghost Train or The Cat and the Canary. Hay plays Sgt Doubtfoot, commander of the police station in the coastal hamlet of Turnbotham Round, who hasn't made an arrest in 10 years. This is not because of the area's low crime rate, but because most of the poaching, pilfering and swindling in the village is the responsibility of his own constables, the geriatric Harbottle (Moore Marriott) and literal wide-boy Albert (Graham Moffatt). When the Chief Constable threatens to close the station, the bumbling coppers set out to investigate some crimes and go after a smuggling squire who has been using a local legend as a cover story (and planting his signal light on top of the police station itself). Director Marcel Varnel, working from a script by Sidney Gilliatt and Val Guest, manage some fine semi-horror business with "the 'earse of the 'headless 'orseman", a flaming carriage which dashes about the landscape, and a risky venture into Devil's Cave to find the old smuggler's route that turns out to lead to the cellar of Harbottle's general stores. Hay and his sidekicks are in top form, squabbling surreally over every possible filched coin from the police outing fund box or trying to sort out the plot, and there's a sublime scene as they try to get a clue out of the impossibly ancient Harbottle's even more elderly Dad (also Marriott). --Kim Newman

• Will Hay - Boys will be Boys | DVD | (28/04/2010) from £10.98   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  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.

• Will Hay - Good Morning Boys / Hey! Hey! USA | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £6.54   |  Saving you £6.45 (49.70%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In 1937's Good Morning Boys Will Hay plays the pompous but ill-qualified headmaster of St Michael's, Dr Benjamin Twist, who befuddles his class with meaningless mathematical equations while they set their wits to constructing booby traps for him. However, when his boys pass an inter-schools examination, having seen the French paper in advance, they're invited by the French educational authorities to Paris and become involved in a plot to steal the Mona Lisa. Although it is at times too silly plot-wise even for those with a high endurance for farce, Good Morning, Boys is another fine showcase for Hay to display his well-honed repertoire of tics, double-takes and blathering half-sense. In Hey! Hey! USA!, a 1938 comedy intended to boost Hay's stock in America, he again plays Dr Twist who becomes tutor to millionaire's son Bernie Schulz aboard an Atlantic liner. Predictably the boy knows more about all aspects of history than Hay, having to remind him that Britain lost in the War of Independence against America. "Yes, but we sent our second eleven," Hay reminds him, "And we were playing away." Further capers ensue when two rival gangs attempt to capture the precocious lad, with his parents dispatching Hay to pass on the ransom money. Hey! Hey! USA!has its moments, but despite the presence of old Laurel and Hardy sidekicks Edgar Kennedy (as a dim-witted gangster) and Charlie Hall, this was too leaky a comedic vessel to transport Hay's peculiarly British UK success across the Atlantic. On the DVD: Good Morning Boys and Hey! Hey! USA! are presented on disc well restored from their original 1930s film stock, give or take the odd crackle. There are no extras except scene index. --David Stubbs

• Will Hay - Old Bones of the River | DVD | (30/09/2010) from £6.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  A film starring Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott. Directed by Marcel Varnel. Year of production 1938 Rereleased by Granada Ventures Limited

• Will Hay - Hey Hey USA! | DVD | (07/12/2009) from £5.59   |  Saving you £-0.60 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  A film starring Will Hay, Edgar Kennedy, Tommy Bupp, David Burns. Director Marcel Varnel. Writer Marriott Edgar, Val Guest. Year of production 1938. Rereleased by Granada Ventures Limited

• We'Ve Got The Toaster | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £5.36   |  Saving you £2.63 (49.07%)   |  RRP £7.99

  We've Got The Toaster is a hilarious independent coming of age comedy made in the environs of Royal Tunbridge Wells England by some of the UK's freshest talents. We've Got The Toaster is as much about what happens before and after a party as what happens during one. The preparayion. The anticipation. The acceleration of an evening in full swing. The unscriptable chaos. The sleep over. The cold light of the next morning. But it's also an uplifting personal story of how by daring to step out of his safety zone an awkward boy is catapulted out of the loneliness of living in his head into a social life.

• The Will Hay Collection | DVD | (20/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  A collection of Will Hay films. Includes: 1. The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942) 2. Dandy Dick (1935) 3. The Ghost of St Michaels (1941) 4. The Goost Steps Out (1942) 5. My Learned Friend (1943) 6. Radio Parade of 1935 (1934) 7. Those Were the Days (1934) 8. Oh Mr Porter (1937) 9. Convict 99 (1938) 10. Windbag The Saiilor (1936) 11. Ask A Policeman (1938) 12. Boys Will Be Boys (1935) 13. Old Bones of the River (1938) 14. Where There's a Will (1936) 15. Good Morning Boys (1937) 16. Hey! Hey! USA! (1938)

• 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.

• Will Hay - Where There's A Will | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £7.03   |  Saving you £2.96 (29.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Not quite vintage Will Hay, Where There's a Will dates from 1936--a year or two before the comic started turning out his best screen work--and casts Hay as an inept, drunken lawyer who begins the day by having the gas, phone and electricity cut off as he dryly plays off his cynical office boy (Graham Moffatt), but ends the film dressed as Santa Claus foiling a high society robbery and convincing even his stern, upper-crust brother-in-law (blustering HF Maltby) that he's earned a drink. It lacks the focus of Hay's best vehicles, with too much plot about conniving gangsters (slinky Gina Halo, sly Hartley Power) using the "Red-Headed League" ploy of hiring the lawyer to get him out of his office so they can rob the downstairs bank, while Hay's family complications revolve around a daughter (Peggy Simpson) who idolises him and doesn't know he's a failure. There are a few vaudeville-style turns, as Hay tries to blind officious landladies or potential clients with legal nonsense or gets a teetotal butler drunk, but it's mostly running-around. Imported Yank director William Beaudine, who gets a script credit with Hay (from a Sidney Gilliat/Leslie Arliss story), basically referees the show, standing back so the star can get on with it. Hammer fans should note that editor TR Fisher is Terence Fisher, future director of The Curse of Frankenstein and other classics.--Kim Newman

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

  This classic comedy has Will Hay as a bogus sea captain Ben Cutlet. He is tricked into taking command of an unseaworthy ship the Rob Roy which the owners intend to sink.He and two stowaways escape on a raft to an island inhabited by cannibals. The natives are frightened into friendliness by the radio set which the trio stole from the ship. Ben and the stowaways recapture the Rob Roy from the crooked crew whose efforts to sink her have proved in vain and sail home in triumph to their native town.

• Will Hay - Good Morning Boys | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £6.06   |  Saving you £5.19 (108.12%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The headmaster of St Michael's school Dr Benjamin Twist (Will Hay) finds himself in hot water after a government inspection. He is asked to resign unless he can prove that his educational methods work and so when he comes into possession of the French paper he does not need much coaxing before showing it to his students. The boys pass with honours but a congratulatory trip to Paris goes awry when they and Twist inadvertently help to steal the Mona Lisa.