The Ghost of St. Michael's (1941)

UK
Feature Film
Director: Marcel Varnel
Writers: John Dighton, Angus MacPhail
Cinematographer: Derick Williams
Composer: Ernest Irving
Cast: Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Charles Hawtrey, Raymond Huntley, Felix Aylmer, Elliott Mason, John Laurie

Will Hay’s first outing for Ealing, in which he plays his stock character of a shady, incompetent school master, in this case working at a school evacuated to a small Scottish isle, in a plot that reworks (for the umpteenth time) Arthur Ridley’s The Ghost Train, is, despite its familiarity, something of a career highlight for the great British comedian, bettered only, perhaps, by Oh, Mr. Porter! (1937), Convict 99 (1938), and My Learned Friend (1943). Iain.Stott