Hey! Hey! USA

Hey! Hey! USA
Directed by	Marcel Varnel
Produced by	Michael Balcon
Written by	J.O.C. Orton
Starring	Will Hay Edgar Kennedy Edmon Ryan David Burns
Music by	Charles Williams
Cinematography	Arthur Crabtree
Editing by	R.E. Dearing
Distributed by	Gainsborough Pictures
Release date(s)	October 1938
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Hey! Hey! USA is a 1938 British comedy film starring comedian Will Hay, Edgar Kennedy and Eddie Ryan. Hay appears as Benjamin Twist, a porter who accidentally finds himself on a ship bound for the United States.

Plot outline

Benjamin Twist, a teacher working during school holidays as a ship's porter ends up on a ship bound for America and impersonating a professor, Phineas Tavistock. Along with American gangster and stowaway Bugs Leary (Edgar Kennedy), Twist finds himself entangled in a plot to kidnap the son of a millionaire whom 'Professor' Tavistock is teaching. Things are further complicated by the fact that two sets of gangsters are attempting to get their hands on the ransom money, which Twist is given to hand over.

Cast

• Will Hay - Benjamin Twist/Professor Phineas Tavistock
• Edgar Kennedy - Bugs Leary
• David Burns - Tony Ricardo
• Eddie Ryan - Ace Marco
• Fred Duprez - Cyrus Schultz
• Paddy Reynolds - Mrs Schultz
• Tommy Bupp - Bertie Schultz
• Arthur Goullet - Glove Johnson
• Gibb McLaughlin - Steward
• Eddie Pola - Broadcast Announcer
• Roddy McDowall - Boy
• Peter Gawthorne - Ship's Captain
• Charlie Hall - Leary's Pal
• Charles Oliver - Curly
• Danny Green - McGuire, the Chicago cop

Bibliography

• Slide, Anthony. 'Banned in the USA': British Films in the United States and their Censorship, 1933-1960. I.B. Tauris & Co, 1998.

External links

• Hey! Hey! USA at the Internet Movie Database
• Hey! Hey! USA is available for free download at the Internet Archive [more]