Those Were the Days (1934 film)


Those Were the Days is a 1934 British film primarily remembered as Will Hays first major screen role. It was based on Sir Arthur Wing Pineros 1885 farce The Magistrate and was the first of two Hay movies based on Pineros plays, the other being Dandy Dick. The movie also featured music hall acts of the time acts of a type rarely committed to film.

Mrs Poskett tries to stop an upcoming visit from her first husbands friend Claud Allister, who knows her true age, by confronting him at a local music hall. However, unbeknownst to her, Poskett has also been convinced to go to the music hall with his adolescent stepson and, in an ensuing melee, Posketts wife and her sister are arrested.The following day, Poskett sentences both to seven days imprisonment, failing to recognise them as they are heavily veiled. ........

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