Hey! Hey! U.S.A.! (Original title)
Date: 1938 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Marcel Varnel
Synopsis: Anglo-American gangster comedy burlesque. Dr Twist has left his old school under a cloud and is now a dockside porter. One day he carries aboard the luggage of a notorious gangster and, after being drugged, soon finds himself involved with a criminal gang who plan to kidnap the spoilt son of a wealthy businessman. Posing as an eminent professor, Twist must work with a gangster stowaway to keep from being arrested for having no ticket - and once they reach America, he tries to keep beyond the reach of the police and the gangsters while helping to save the boy.
Genre: Comedy
Releases
Date: 1938Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 92 mins Length: 8238 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 1938 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Marcel Varnel
Synopsis: Anglo-American gangster comedy burlesque. Dr Twist has left his old school under a cloud and is now a dockside porter. One day he carries aboard the luggage of a notorious gangster and, after being drugged, soon finds himself involved with a criminal gang who plan to kidnap the spoilt son of a wealthy businessman. Posing as an eminent professor, Twist must work with a gangster stowaway to keep from being arrested for having no ticket - and once they reach America, he tries to keep beyond the reach of the police and the gangsters while helping to save the boy.
Genre: Comedy
Releases
Date: 1938Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 92 mins Length: 8238 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
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A Gainsborough Picture: Gainsborough Pictures, Presents: Gaumont-British Picture Corpn. Ltd., Producer: Edward Black, Scenario: J.O.C. Orton, Dialogue: Val Guest, Dialogue: Marriott Edgar, Author of the Original Work: Ralph Smart, Based on an original story by: Jack Swain, Author of the Original Work: Howard Irving Young, Photography: Arthur Crabtree, Editing: R.E. Dearing, Settings: Vetchinsky, Musical Director: Louis Levy, Recording: W. Salter, Recorded on: British Acoustic Film, Made at: Islington
Cast
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Will Hay (Benjamin Twist), Edgar Kennedy (Bugs Leary), David Burns (Tony Ricardo), Eddie Ryan (Ace Marco), Fred Duprez (Cyrus Schultz), Paddy Reynolds (Mrs Schultz), Tommy Bupp (Bertie Schultz), Arthur Goullet (William Henry 'Gloves' Johnson), Gibb McLaughlin (ship's steward), Eddie Pola (broadcast announcer), Peter Gawthorne (ship's captain), Roddy McDowall (boy on dockside), Danny Green (McGuire, cop in jailhouse), Hugh McDermott (man on phone), Percy Parsons (Fletcher), John Salew (member of Marco's gang)