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Black Sheep of Whitehall

  • 1942
  • 1h 20min
NOTE IMDb
6,7/10
370
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Will Hay in Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942)
Comedy

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueProfessor Davis, who teaches at a correspondence school, discovers that a Nazi Agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America. The agent is posing a... Tout lireProfessor Davis, who teaches at a correspondence school, discovers that a Nazi Agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America. The agent is posing as an economics expert seconded to the trade delegation. The professor must find the real e... Tout lireProfessor Davis, who teaches at a correspondence school, discovers that a Nazi Agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America. The agent is posing as an economics expert seconded to the trade delegation. The professor must find the real economist and expose the agent.

  • Réalisation
    • Basil Dearden
    • Will Hay
  • Scénario
    • Angus MacPhail
    • John Dighton
  • Casting principal
    • Will Hay
    • John Mills
    • Basil Sydney
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
  • NOTE IMDb
    6,7/10
    370
    MA NOTE
    • Réalisation
      • Basil Dearden
      • Will Hay
    • Scénario
      • Angus MacPhail
      • John Dighton
    • Casting principal
      • Will Hay
      • John Mills
      • Basil Sydney
    • 11avis d'utilisateurs
    • 2avis des critiques
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
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    Rôles principaux31

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    Will Hay
    Will Hay
    • Professor Davis
    John Mills
    John Mills
    • Bobby Jessop
    Basil Sydney
    Basil Sydney
    • Arthur Costello
    Henry Hewitt
    • Prof. Davys
    Felix Aylmer
    Felix Aylmer
    • J.B. Crabtree
    Owen Reynolds
    • Harman
    Frank Cellier
    Frank Cellier
    • Dr. Innsbach
    Joss Ambler
    Joss Ambler
    • Sir John
    Frank Allenby
    Frank Allenby
    • Onslowe
    Thora Hird
    Thora Hird
    • Joyce
    Margaret Halstan
    Margaret Halstan
    • Matron
    Barbara Valerie
    • Sister Spooner
    Leslie Mitchell
    • B.B.C. Interviewer
    George Woodbridge
    George Woodbridge
    • Male Nurse
    George Merritt
    George Merritt
    • Station Master
    Aubrey Mallalieu
    Aubrey Mallalieu
    • Ticket Collector
    Diana Beaumont
    Diana Beaumont
    • Sister at Nursing Home
    • (non crédité)
    John Boxer
    • Hotel Receptionist
    • (non crédité)
    • Réalisation
      • Basil Dearden
      • Will Hay
    • Scénario
      • Angus MacPhail
      • John Dighton
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    5JoeytheBrit

    Black Sheep of Whitehall review

    Will Hay was approaching the end of his screen career by 1942, and the quality of his work had suffered after he decided to dispense with the services of Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt. While The Black Sheep of Whitehall has its moments, it never reaches the heights of his earlier work. John Mills provides energetic suppport, but he never seemed comfortable in comic roles, and fails to provide the kind of repartee upon which Hay's brand of humour depended.
    6malcolmgsw

    Amusing but not his best

    Will hay was like many great comedians,he hated being part of a team.Two other examples being WC Fields in his later years and Tony Hancock.Despite doing his best work at Gainsborough he decided to break with them and join Ealing.As a result none of the 5 films that he starred and co-directed at Ealing are up to the standard of the films that he made with Graham Moffat and Moore Marriott.In this film his straight man is of all people John Mills.Whilst there are some funny moments this film is not consistently funny.Also it has to be said that Hay is starting to look quite old,he only made 2 more features after this before a series of strokes brought an untimely end to his career.
    YohjiArmstrong

    White Sheep

    THE BLACK SHEEP OF WHITEHALL was one of the many films starring the now largely forgotten British comedian Will Hays. As usual, he's a shady character who gets dragged into things; this time a Professor Davies - running an mail order qualifications scam - who is confused with a Professor Daveys - a top Latin American economist come to London to arbitrate on a vital trade agreement - after the latter is kidnapped by Nazi agents in the middle of the Second World War. With John Mills' straight man, they rumble the plot and - afraid the police won't believe them - decide to free the right professor by infiltrating the sanitorium where he's being hidden. It's fast-paced, music-hall comedy as the pair bumble from scrape to scrape, with the inevitable transvestism and occasional war jokes. The highlight though is the climactic chase, in which the professor is towed behind a car on a medical tricycle; it is a brilliant piece of visual comedy that makes the entire film worthwhile. An old-fashioned treat.
    8Spondonman

    Underrated

    This is one of Will Hay's overlooked gems – of course not up to his Gainborough standard it's continuously inventive with many hilarious patches. And John Mills excelled himself as his semi-comic sidekick in best Music Hall tradition.

    Without going into too much detail: A Professor Davys is kidnapped by Nazi agents en route to the Ministry of International Commerce where he was to give the lowdown to the British government on how to screw 10 friendly South American governments with a multilateral economic agreement in the campaign to win WW2. The Nazis supply their own man to fool the Authorities. Hay, as seedy correspondence college Principal and Treasurer Professor Davis and Ministry clerk Mills get mixed up in it all when they discover the truth and the chase is on to out the Nazis. Believe it or not it would be quite an engrossing plot even without the comedy, and taken at breakneck speed. If remade today though cgi cartoonery, swearing, sex and violence would probably add 30 minutes on. Favourite bits: Hay's BBC radio interview with the despairing Leslie Mitchell; Mills in the hospital as an amnesiac; the nurse telling Hay (dressed as a nurse) she sees that Hay sticks to the old-fashioned undies and his surprising reply; the national anthems being played – although a missed opportunity to have Joss Ambler stand up in his turn; the slapstick chase with the Prof. in the bath-chair in tow. When the chair eventually loses its wheels the sound effects are relentlessly gorgeous!

    With so many classics behind him and one classic still to make, Black Sheep can be compared unfavourably, but taken on its own is still a very funny British film made generations ago.
    3richardchatten

    Pretty Dire

    Will Hay was never as funny again after leaving Gainsborough for Ealing, and with it Graham Moffat & Moore Marriott. This one is a particularly dispiriting affair, with few of a good cast at their best - and it doesn't even have Claude Hulbert! Hay laboriously impersonates six different characters without any attempt to change his voice or body language; while the concluding motor cycle chase set against an attractive rural backdrop initially promises to liven things up, but proves far too confusing and goes on far too long.

    There are odd moments such as the radio interview with Leslie Mitchell that reduces Mitchell to a perspiring wreck, and John Mills has a couple of funny scenes impersonating an amnesiac in the Psychopathic Ward; but it took until Hay's next (and final) two films to return to something like his old form.

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    • Anecdotes
      Debut of actress Thora Hird.
    • Gaffes
      Will enters the nursing home disguised as a nursing sister and has share a room with a nurse who starts to undress ready for bed. she puts a nightdress on over a slip., puts her hand through the neck to slip the shoulder straps off, gives a wriggle to shed the slip but as it drops it's obvious that pt's just been dropped from her front rather tan if it had been worn.
    • Citations

      Davis: [Asked to explain international commerce in a radio interview] Ah - well, the chief export from Portugal is - er - port, and the chief export of Brazil is - nuts. Well, now, the economic situation between port and nuts - that is to say between Portugal and Brazil, is that the Brazilians want to drink port with their nuts and the Portuguese want to eat nuts with their port; so the more the export of port from Portuguese ports which the Brazilian ports import - the greater the export of nuts which the Brazilian ports export and Portugal's ports import. Well, then - in other words - the people of Brazil are bound to grow more and more nuts.

    • Crédits fous
      Opening credits prologue: In England there are many famous seats of learning .... OXFORD CAMBRIDGE ETON HARROW AND

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    • Connexions
      Featured in Tuesday's Documentary: The Ealing Comedies or Kind Hearts and Overdrafts (1970)

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    Détails

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    • Date de sortie
      • 20 juin 1947 (Pays-Bas)
    • Pays d’origine
      • Royaume-Uni
    • Langue
      • Anglais
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • Op het nippertje
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Baynards Railway Station, Baynards Park, Waverley, Surrey, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni(Level crossing)
    • Société de production
      • Ealing Studios
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    • Durée
      1 heure 20 minutes
    • Couleur
      • Black and White
    • Rapport de forme
      • 1.37 : 1

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