Where There's a Will (1936 film)

Where There's a Will
Directed by	William Beaudine
Produced by	Michael Balcon
Written by	Robert Edmunds Will Hay William Beaudine Leslie Arliss (story)
Starring	Will Hay H. F. Maltby Graham Moffatt Norma Varden
Music by	Bretton Byrd
Cinematography	Charles Van Enger
Edited by	Terence Fisher
Distributed by	Gainsborough Pictures
Release date	10 August 1936
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Where There's a Will is a 1936 British comedy film directed by William Beaudine and starring Will Hay, Graham Moffatt and Norma Varden. It features an incompetent solicitor who unwittingly becomes party to a bank robbery.

The film marked the first appearance of Graham Moffatt in a Will Hay film, Moffatt would go on to act as a straight man to Hay along with Moore Marriott, beginning in the following film, Windbag the Sailor.

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.

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