"Director: Marcel Varnel"

• Will Hay - Comic Icons Collection | DVD | (29/10/2007) from £12.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (53.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Titles Comprise: Radio Parade Of 1935 (Dir. Arthur B. Woods 1934) The Ghost Of St. Michael's (Dir. Marcel Varnel 1941) The Black Sheep Of Whitehall (Dir. Basil Dearden/Will Hay 1942) Dandy Dick (Dir. William Beaudine 1935)

• Will Hay Collection | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £17.12   |  Saving you £0.27 (1.58%)   |  RRP £17.39

  A collection of classic films starring British comic actor Will Hay. Films Incllude: 1. Ask A Policeman 2. Boys Will be Boys 3. Oh Mr Porter 4. Convict 99 5. Old Bones Of The River 6. Where There's A Will 7. Good Morning Boys 8. Hey! Hey! USA 9. Windbag The Sailor

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

  Though he gets solo above-the-title billing, Will Hay was no more a solo comedian than Groucho Marx--and Oh, Mr Porter!, one of his finest vehicles, finds him congenially teamed with sidekicks Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt in one of the British cinema's greatest comedy gangs. Hay's William Porter, an inept railway worker, is shunted off to the dead-end job of stationmaster in Buggleskelly, Northern Ireland, arriving as the latest in a long line of doomed souls who have left their presentation clocks on the mantelpiece of the dilapidated office. The delight of the film is in the interplay between Hay and Marriott, the single-toothed dotty old-timer, and Moffatt, the chubby smart kid, as they fail the most basic requirements of their jobs but come up trumps when investigating the ghost of One-Eyed Joe and his haunted mill, discovering a branch line being used by cross-border gun-smugglers who are defeated in a spirited final chase. There's some slapstick with an escape from the mill in a high wind and the last ride of the venerable locomotive Gladstone, but Hay works best with character comedy, pompously reprimanding his subordinates for dodges he proceeds to pull himself, reacting to every ominous line with a perfect double-take and blithely surviving the chaos his character causes wherever he goes. --Kim Newman

• Will Hay - Oh Mr Porter! | DVD | (28/04/2010) from £7.99   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  A film starring Will Hay Moore Marriot, Graham Moffatt. Directed by Marcel Varnel. Year of production 1937 rereleased by ITV

• The Ghost of St Michaels | DVD | (07/02/2011) from £8.00   |  Saving you £7.99 (99.88%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Will Hay back in his role as a hapless teacher is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary ghost whose spectral bagpipes signal the death of one of the staff. Hay assisted by Claude Hulbert and Charles Hawtrey has to unravel the mystery before he becomes the next victim.

• George Formby Collection Vol.1 | DVD | (07/05/2007) from £27.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (42.87%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The archetypal cheeky chappie delivers a fabulous box set packed with 5 of his finest films. Films Comprise: 1. No Limit (1936) 2. Keep Fit (1937) 3. I See Ice (1938) 4. Turned Out Nice Again (1941) 5. Let George Do It (1940)

• He Snoops to Conquer | DVD | (24/10/2011) from £3.29   |  Saving you £6.70 (203.65%)   |  RRP £9.99

  George Fomby is joined by Robertson Hare in this fabulous 194s British Musical comedy, available for the very first time on DVD. The war is over and it's time to build a better Britain - but not if the crooks on Tangleton Town Council have their way! Knocking down Tangleton's slums will ruin their business interests. When Council tea boy George Gribble (George Formby) is employed to go door-to-door filing in a council survey, he uncovers just how poor and unhappy the townspeople are - and the Council have to bury the results. He also gets to meet the eccentric and reclusive inventor Sir Timothy Stawbridge (Robertson Hare) - a meeting that results in wanton destruction with a mechanised road sweeper, a spot of house breaking and a furious police chase! When news gets out that the survey has been hushed up, the townspeople want George's blood - and the only way he can set things right is to team up with Sir Timothy's beautiful daughter and take on all the bigwigs from the council!

• Gasbags | DVD | (20/08/2007) from £6.36   |  Saving you £3.63 (57.08%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Flanagan & Allen Nervo & Knox and Naughton & Gold do their bit for the war effort as the Crazy Gang inadvertantly invade Germany when their barrage balloon gets swept away in a sudden gust of wind.

• British Musicals of the 1930s 4 | DVD | (07/09/2015) from £6.50   |  Saving you £8.49 (130.62%)   |  RRP £14.99

  From playful romantic comedies to variety extravaganzas, the pre-war British musical films offered audiences a source of much-needed escapism throughout the decade haunted by the Great Depression and the growing menace of war. Often adapting much-loved hits of the music hall as well as serving as vehicles for the era's composers, performers and band leaders, they showcased home-grown talent alongside some of Hollywood's most bankable stars. This ongoing, multi-volume collection makes available a wealth of rare gems from the very earliest days of the British talkies, many of which have remained unseen since their original release; each film is presented uncut, in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. DANCE BAND (1935) Life gets complicated for bandleader Buddy when he falls for his greatest rival the leader of an all-girl dance band! KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN (1937) A hugely popular, much-adapted comedy in which a Liverpool lass visits family in rural Ireland and finds she has several rivals for her affections. HOLD MY HAND (1938)Eddie Marston is wealthy and kind, but his affairs are rapidly descending into chaos. Who can help him? YES, MADAM? (1938) The hilarious tale of two cousins who must complete a period in domestic service in order to receive an inheritance.

• The Frozen Limits | DVD | (20/08/2007) from £9.44   |  Saving you £0.55 (5.83%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Crazy Gang a pre-Monty Python group of British ""nut"" comedians were popular on stage and screen from 1935 through 1962. In The Frozen Limits the comic sextet Bud Flanagan Chesney Allen Jimmy Nervo Teddy Knox Charlie Naughton and Jimmy Gold head to Alaska to take advantage of the 1898 Gold Rush. Unfortunately it's now 1939 and no one is in a rush anymore! But better late than never!

• The Arthur Askey Collection | DVD | (13/08/2012) from £9.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (150.15%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This fantastic six disc collection features some of Arthur Askey's finest works.Features Comprise:1. Back-Room Boy (Dir. Herbert Mason, 1942)2. Band Waggon (Dir. Marcel Varnel, 1940)3. Bees In Paradise (Dir. Val Guest, 1944)4. King Arthur Was A Gentleman (Dir. Marcel Varnel, 1942)5. Miss London Ltd (Dir. Val Guest, 1943)6. I Thank You (Dir. Marcel Varnel, 1941)For individual synopses please refer to the individual titles.

• Will Hay - Oh Mr Porter / Convict 99 | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £12.60   |  Saving you £0.39 (3.10%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Though he gets solo above-the-title billing, Will Hay was no more a solo comedian than Groucho Marx. Teamed with sidekicks Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt the trio formed one of British cinema's greatest comedy gangs. Oh, Mr Porter!, one of their finest vehicles, finds Hay as congenial William Porter, an inept railway worker who is shunted off to the dead-end job of stationmaster in Buggleskelly, Northern Ireland. The delight of the film is in the interplay between Hay and Marriott, the single-toothed dotty old-timer, and Moffatt, the chubby smart kid, as they fail the most basic requirements of their jobs but come up trumps when investigating the ghost of One-Eyed Joe and his haunted mill. --Kim Newman One of Will Hay's brisker comic efforts, 1936's Convict 99 sees Dr Benjamin Twist, Hay's clueless schoolmaster, caught in a case of mistaken identity and invited to head up a prison for especially hard-boiled criminals. It's a typical outtake from Hay's bizarrely lawless universe in which, for all his harrumphing and bluster, he's unable to exercise any sort of discipline whatsoever over the men in his charge. Hay plays exactly the same character from film to film, one so ill-equipped for any situation he's equally suited for all. Whereas Twist is an incompetent who somehow muddles through, Hay the comic actor is a master of timing and double-takes who knows precisely how to create the air of a shambles. --David Stubbs

• The Will Hay Collection | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £31.99   |  Saving you £18.00 (56.27%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The Will Hay Collection is a nine-disc box containing the following films: Ask a Policeman / Boys Will Be Boys Oh, Mr Porter! / Convict 99 Old Bones of the River / Where There's a Will Good Morning Boys / Hey! Hey! USA! Windbag the Sailor (exclusive to this box set): dating from 1936 this is the first film to unite Will Hay, Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt. The hapless trio find themselves as the crew of a decrepit ship.

• Freedom of the Seas | DVD | (10/11/2014) from £7.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Character player Clifford Mollison and celebrated playwright and actor H.F. Maltby are among the cast of this sprightly early-thirties comedy charting the exploits of an unlikely wartime hero. Freedom of the Seas – also notable as French director Marcel Varnel’s first British film following a period in Hollywood – is featured here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Mollison plays Smith a mild-mannered clerk who becomes one of the first men to join up after the declaration of war in 1914. He joins the Navy and – to the amazement of all and sundry – succeeds in outwitting various spies and sinking an enemy submarine... Special Features: Image Gallery Promotional Materials PDFs

• Much Too Shy | DVD | (24/10/2011) from £2.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (70.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  George Formby plays a handyman with a knack for handling the paint brush, a talent he pursues by painting portraits of heads minus the body because he lacks the boldness to have his models pose nude. In a commercial art class, fellow students add bodies to three of Formby's heads, creating trouble for him.

• 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.

• I Didn't Do It | DVD | (24/10/2011) from £2.76   |  Saving you £7.23 (261.96%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Gormless George Trotter (George Formby) moves down from Manchester to the bright lights of London in search of fame and fortune on the stage - only to find himself the prime suspect in a bizarre murder mystery! While staying at Ma Tubbs' theatrical boarding house, a man is murdered in the room right next door to George. When George tries to solve the mystery, he ends up presenting the police with a whole load of clues - all of which point to him as the culprit! Now George must uncover the real murderer himself, which the help of his showbiz friends, his little Ukulele and a fiendishly cunning song! This delightful comedy musical includes three full-length musical numbers - The Darling Young Man, She's Got Two of Everything and I'd Like a Dream Like That.

• Bell-bottom George | DVD | (24/10/2011) from £5.00   |  Saving you £4.99 (49.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  George Formby joins the Royal Navy and tackles a devious Nazi spy ring in this classic wartime comedy musical! George Blake (George Formby) is desperate to join the navy and to do his bit in fighting against Hitler. The trouble is, the navy doesn't want him! It looks like George will see out the war as a steward at the Senior Service Club - until fate takes a hand! During an air raid blackout, he accidentally puts on the naval uniform of one of his chums - and before he knows it, everyone thinks he's a fully-fledged matelot. New, George must keep up the pretence, because he's terrified of being considered a German spy! Meanwhile, real German spies are desperate to sink a new U-boat hunting warship and when George blunders across their cunning plans he finds himself in even hotter water!

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

  Will Hay - Convict 99