ENTERTAINMENTS
OPERA HOUSE —Nov; Showing: “My Learned Friend” starring Will Hay and Claude Hulbert.
Will Hay and Claude Hulbert’s efforts to hold up a mass murderer’s schedule make “My Learned Friend” now showing at the Opera House one of the most hilarious comedies to reach the screen. These two inimitable comedians go through a series of adventures which take them to an inquest where they are thrown out for creating a disturbance. They visit an east side dive in which Will just manages) to escape being sliced by a razor slicer. They get taken for lunatics at a mental clinjc and in an uproarious sequence at a pantomime they get mixed up behind the scenes with Will appearanc as the Emperor of China and Claude as that faithful servant “The slave of the Lamps. . Laughter and thrills reach a terrific climax when the two discover a plot to blow up the House of Lords by means of a time bomb _ attached to the hands of Big Ben with Will and Claude emerging the nations heroes.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 December 1944, Page 6
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