Main title from The Ghost of St. Michael’s (1941)

The Ghost of St. Michael’s

(1941)

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| Film | United Kingdom | B&W | Comedy | 1h 22min |
U
| Stars: Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Felix Aylmer | Director: Marcel Varnel

A school is evacuated to the Isle of Skye, and the local ghost turns out to be an enemy agent

Cast

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British character comedian, Will Hay, wears a mortar board in his trademark schoolmaster role
Will Lamb
Photograph of British actor, Claude Hulbert, from the 1935 film The Butter and Egg Man (1)
Hilary Tisdaile
British actor Felix Aylmer wears a white dinner jacket and bow tie
Dr Winter
Photograph of English actor, Raymond Huntley (1)
Mr Humphries
Roddy Hughes
Amberley
Manning Whiley
Stock
Charles Mortimer
Sir Ambrose
Charles Hawtrey
Percy Thorne
Derek Blomfield
Sunshine
Clive Baxter
Ritzy
Elliott Mason
Mrs Wigmore
John Laurie
Jamie
Hay Petrie
Procurator Fiscal
David Keir
Dr Ritchie
Brefni O’Rorke
Sgt Macfarlan
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Reviews

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The star’s schoolmaster character is here at its seedy best, and he is well supported in a comedy-thriller plot. (Halliwell’s)

Pictures

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Main title from The Ghost of St. Michael’s (1941)

Production

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Marcel Varnel
Director
Michael Balcon
Producer
Angus MacPhail [as Angus Macphail]
Writer (original story and screenplay)
John Dighton
Writer (original story and screenplay)

Companies

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Ealing Studios
Production company
Associated British Film Distributors (A.B.F.D.)
Distribution company
Associated British Film Distributors (A.B.F.D.)
Distribution company
Ealing Distribution
Distribution company