List of the best Marcel Varnel movies: Ask a Policeman(1939), Oh, Mr. Porter!(1937), The Ghost of St. Michael's(1941), Chandu, the Magician(1932), I Thank You(1941), Bell-Bottom George(1943), Hey! Hey! USA(1938), King Arthur Was a Gentleman(1942), Band Waggon(1940), Okay for Sound(1936), Convict 99(1938), Good Morning Boys(1937) ... ...
Comedy
UK
1939
82 Minutes
Director
Will Hay Moore Marriott Graham Moffatt Glennis Lorimer Peter Gawthorne Charles Oliver
The mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremiah Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime-wave to save their jobs---and then find themselves involved in the real thing.
Comedy
UK
1937
85 Minutes
Director
stationmaster loser sidekick gunrunner goon amusing witty unrestrained madcap ireland rural community train station gun running adventure comedy adventure pursuit 1930s
With the help of a relative, a hopeless railway employee is made stationmaster of Buggleskelly. Determined to make his mark, he devises a number of schemes to put Buggleskelly on the railway map, but instead falls foul of a gang of gun runners.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
UK
1941
82 Minutes
Director
Will Hay Claude Hulbert Charles Hawtrey Raymond Huntley Felix Aylmer Elliott Mason John Laurie Hay Petrie Roddy Hughes Manning Whiley Derek Blomfield
science teacher headmaster schoolboy undercover agent sergeant ghost creepy amusing witty madcap thrilling engaging scotland school ancient curse school nazis murder survival suspicion
A hapless teacher named Will Lamb is hired by a grim school in Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary ghost, whose spectral bagpipes signal the death of one of the ... See full summary »
Sci-Fi
USA
1932
74 Minutes
Director
Edmund Lowe Bela Lugosi Irene Ware Herbert Mundin Henry B. Walthall Weldon Heyburn Virginia Hammond June Lang Nestor Aber
magician madman inventor sister princess daughter campy spectacular india monastery slave market lair household united states death ray kidnapping good versus evil hypnosis teleportation inventions
When delusional madman Roxor kidnaps a scientist in hopes of using his death ray to achieve world dominance, he is opposed by Chandu, a powerful hypnotist and yogi.
Musical, Comedy
UK
1941
81 Minutes
Director
Arthur Askey Richard Murdoch Lily Morris Moore Marriott Graham Moffatt Peter Gawthorne Kathleen Harrison Felix Aylmer
entertainer agent cook socialite patron singer amusing madcap melodramatic london office air-raid shelter music hall estate underground theater production class distinctions world war ii assumed identity fundraising
Struggling entertainers who are trying to put on a show pose as servants to wealthy woman in hopes of raising the money.
Comedy, War
UK
1943
97 Minutes
Director
George Formby Anne Firth Reginald Purdell Peter Murray Hill Charles Farrell Eliot Makeham
waiter sailor german spy nazi wren admiral witty engaging lighthearted madcap amusing hilarious england mistaken identity career aspirations world war ii musical performance navy humor adventure
Nazi spies are out to destroy a new submarine killer, the "Firefly", being developed by the British navy. A hapless waiter named George, after being rejected for military service three ... See full summary »
Comedy
UK
1938
92 Minutes
Director
Will Hay Edgar Kennedy David Burns Edmon Ryan Fred Duprez Paddy Reynolds Tommy Bupp Arthur Goullet Gibb McLaughlin Eddie Pola
Dr Twist has to pose on a liner as a famous professor and is asked to tutor Bernie, the son of a millionaire. To avoid awkward US immigration questions, Twist enlists the help of a gangster... See full summary »
Adventure, Comedy
UK
1942
99 Minutes
Director
Arthur Askey Max Bacon Al Burnett Evelyn Dall Peter Graves Anne Shelton Ronald Shiner Jack Train
Arthur King joins the army, and soon starts fantasising about King Arthur and his knights.
Musical, Comedy
UK
1940
80 Minutes
Director
Jack Hylton Patricia Kirkwood Moore Marriott Peter Gawthorne Donald Calthrop Wally Patch
A plot involving spies in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.
Comedy
1936
86 Minutes
Director
Comedy
1938
91 Minutes
Director
Will Hay Moore Marriott Graham Moffatt Googie Withers Peter Gawthorne Basil Radford Dennis Wyndham Wilfred Walter Alf Goddard Garry Marsh Basil McGrail
headmaster prisoner prison official airy amusing charming cheeky engaging lighthearted madcap prison school mistaken identity comedy adventure underdog 1930s
A British schoolteacher (Will Hay) becomes a prison warden and lets inmates run the place like a business.
Comedy
1937
78 Minutes
Director
headmaster colonel lady student escaped convict nightclub singer witty amusing lighthearted madcap engaging playful boarding school england paris cheating education boarding-school life criminals saving the day
Comedy
1938
95 Minutes
Director
Will Hay Moore Marriott Graham Moffatt Robert Adams Jack Livesey Jack London F. Wyndham Goldie
A teacher (Will Hay) opening a school for native African tribes takes over for the commissioner and causes an uprising when he tries to collect taxes.
Comedy
1939
73 Minutes
Director
George Formby Phyllis Calvert Bernard Lee Romney Brent Garry Marsh Coral Browne Percy Walsh Diana Beaumont
musician spy intelligence officer naval officer amusing confident engaging hilarious lighthearted madcap patriotic spirited witty norway spying war mistaken identity love interest musicians adventure
Comedy
1940
85 Minutes
Director
Walter Forde Bud Flanagan Chesney Allen
german nazi soldier friend ss officer hapless men amusing charming endearing hilarious madcap melodramatic germany prison united kingdom ocean on the run war prison break adolf hitler