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The Ghost of St. Michael's (1941)

The Ghost of St. Michael's poster
Directed by
Marcel Varnel
Genre
comedy thriller
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 22m
Rated
U
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 12 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A school on a remote island is being used as a cover for Nazi spies. A bumbling teacher and a hapless reporter team up to uncover the plot.

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What happens

The Ghost of St. Michael's is a 1941 British comedy-thriller film, produced by Ealing Studios. Will Hay, the film's star, replaced his sidekicks, Graham Moffatt and Moore Marriott, from his previous film Where's That Fire? with comedian Claude Hulbert. Hay and Hulbert would act together again in My Learned Friend two years later. Typical of comedies made during the war, it has an anti-Nazi plot. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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