Convict 99 (1938)

Highly Recommended
UK
Feature Film
Director: Marcel Varnel
Writers: Jack Davis Jr., Ralph Smart, Marriott Edgar, Val Guest, Cyril Campion
Cinematographer: Arthur Crabtree
Cast: Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Googie Withers, Peter Gawthorne, Basil Radford, Dennis Wyndham, Wilfred Walter, Alf Goddard, Basil McGrail

After being relieved of his post at St. Michael’s, Dr. Benjamin Twist, an unscrupulous, incompetent headmaster, stumbles into the post of governor of a maximum security prison (thanks to a case of mistaken identity), which, after a period spent as an inmate (mistaken identity again), he, along with a committee of convicts, turns into something akin to a holiday camp, in this generally hilarious and delightfully subversive sequel to Good Morning, Boys (1937), which is (compared to other Gainsborough-Hay efforts) a great deal more tightly plotted and well-thought out. Iain.Stott