My Learned Friend (1943)

Highly Recommended
UK
Feature Film

Directors: Basil Dearden, Will Hay
Writers: John Dighton, Angus MacPhail
Cinematographer: W. Cooper
Composer: Ernest Irving
Cast: Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Mervyn Johns, Charles Victor, Derna Hazell, Eddie Phillips, Lloyd Pearson, Maudie Edwards

Will Hay’s final film – a hilarious black comedy following the misadventures of a disgraced former barrister who is the last name on the hit-list of a vengeance-seeking, homicidal ex-con – proves to be, with Hay’s typically brilliant performance and some hammily wonderful support from Hulbert and Johns, a serial-killer comedy par excellence. Iain.Stott