Those Were the Days (1934)

Directed by

Thomas Bentley

Genre

comedy film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 20m

Rating

8.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A magistrate gets into trouble because of a small lie about his age. This leads to a series of comic misunderstandings and complications.

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What happens

Those Were the Days (also known as The Magistrate) is a 1934 British comedy film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Will Hay in his first major screen role, Iris Hoey, John Mills, and a number of music-hall stars as themselves. It was written by Jack Jordan, Frank Launder and Frederick A. Thompson based on Arthur Wing Pinero's 1885 farce The Magistrate and was the first of two Hay films based on Pinero's plays, the other being Dandy Dick (1935). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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