Those Were the Days

Those Were the Days

80 mins | Comedy, Music | April 2, 1934

A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which the son (John Mills) of a stern magistrate (Will Hay) visits a music hall against the wishes of his father. In true farcical style, the magistrate too ends up at the music hall, and before long all the characters are trying not to avoid each other... Mainly notable (a) because of its depiction of the music hall as seen by a generation which knew it intimately (b) because of its use of music hall acts of the time and (c) because it gave Will Hay his first film role.

Those Were the Days

80 mins | Comedy, Music | April 2, 1934

Those Were the Days
A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which the son (John Mills) of a stern magistrate (Will Hay) visits a music hall against the wishes of his father. In true farcical style, the magistrate too ends up at the music hall, and before long all the characters are trying not to avoid each other... Mainly notable (a) because of its depiction of the music hall as seen by a generation which knew it intimately (b) because of its use of music hall acts of the time and (c) because it gave Will Hay his first film role.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers British International Pictures
Original title Those Were the Days
Directors Thomas Bentley
Writers

Cast

Will Hay

as Magistrate Brutus Poskett

Iris Hoey

as Agatha Poskett

Angela Baddeley

as Charlotte Verrinder

Claud Allister

as Capt. Horace Vale

George Graves

as Col. Alexander Lukyn

John Mills

as Bobby Poskett

Jane Carr

as Minnie Taylor

Marguerite Allan

as Eve Douglas

H.F. Maltby

as Mr. Bullamy

Laurence Hanray

as Wormington

Syd Crossley

as Wyke

Wally Patch

as Inspector Briggs

Jimmy Godden

as Pat Maloney