Where There's a Will (1936 film)

Where There's a Will
Directed by William Beaudine
Produced by Michael Balcon
Written by Robert Edmunds
Will Hay
William Beaudine
Leslie Arliss (story)
Starring Will Hay
H. F. Maltby
Graham Moffatt
Norma Varden
Music by Bretton Byrd
Cinematography Charles Van Enger
Edited by Terence Fisher
Distributed by Gainsborough Pictures
Release dates
10 August 1936
Running time
80 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English

Where There's a Will is a 1936 British comedy film directed by William Beaudine and starring Will Hay, Graham Moffatt and Norma Varden. It features an incompetent solicitor who unwittingly becomes party to a bank robbery.

Plot outline

Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, which Hay confiscates so that he can read it later.

Stubbins later takes a job from a group of Americans who claim they want him to track down some ancestors of theirs in Scotland. In reality, however, they want to use his office so they can rob a safe in the room immediately below his office. Stubbins takes the job (which is designed to keep him out of the office).

In the end Stubbins realises his mistake and at a Christmas Eve fancy dress party he informs a group of carol singing policeman about the Americans nefarious activities.

Cast


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