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Alec Smart, who is engaged teaching in a prison, applies for the job of headmaster at a nearby public school to replace the previous headmaster who has been convicted of writing forged cheques and has just been sent to prison. Smart appeals to the Governor to write him a good reference which he pretends to. Afterwards he writes his real recommendation which is very negative about Smart's talents. The trustee who works as the Governor's secretary, Faker Brown, "accidentally" gets the two letters mixed up and delivers the one praising Smart. On the basis of the letter, Lady Dorking, the who runs the Board of Governors appoints Smart to the job. This angers her deputy, Colonel Crableigh, who had favoured promoting his nephew, the Deputy head.
July 1, 1935
Gainsborough Pictures
8 people
Will Hay
Dr. Alec Smart
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Gordon Harker
Faker Brown
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Jimmy Hanley
Cyril Brown
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Davy Burnaby
Col. Crableigh
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Norma Varden
Lady Dorking
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Claude Dampier
Theo P. Finch
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Charles Farrell
Louis Brown
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Clive Dunn
Schoolboy watching rugby (uncredited)
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