Those Were the Days

Those Were the Days

7.5

Apr 02 1934

1h 20m

Music, Comedy

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.

Will Hay

Will Hay

Magistrate Brutus Poskett

Iris Hoey

Iris Hoey

Agatha Poskett

Angela Baddeley

Angela Baddeley

Charlotte Verrinder

Claud Allister

Claud Allister

Capt. Horace Vale