80 minutes
8/10/1936
Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, which Hay confiscates so that he can read it later. Stubbins later takes a job from a group of Americans who claim they want him to track down some ancestors of theirs in Scotland. In reality however they want to use his office so they can rob a safe in the room immediately below his office. Stubbins takes the job (which is designed to keep him out of the office). In the end Stubbins realises his mistake and at a Christmas Eve fancy dress party he informs a group of carol singing policeman about the Americans nefarious activities
Will Hay
as Benjamin Stubbins
H.F. Maltby
as Sir Roger Wimpleton
Norma Varden
as Lady Margaret Wimpleton
Peggy Simpson
as Barbara Stubbins
Gibb McLaughlin
as Martin, The Butler
Gina Malo
as Goldie Kelly
Hartley Power
as Duke Wilson
Eddie Houghton
as Slug Riley
Hal Walters
as Nick Harris
Sybil Brooke
as Mrs Peabody, Landlady
Davina Whitehouse
as Lucie, The Maid
Graham Moffatt
as Willie, The Office Boy
John Turnbull
as Detective Collins
Gordon Begg
as Aldrich, the Butler
Mickey Brantford
as Jimmy Burbank
Frederick Piper
as Joe, Detective Taking Fingerprints
Victor Rietti
as MaƮtre D