
Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Will Hay (Dandy Dick The Goose Steps Out) plays a disbarred solicitor who with the help of Claude (Claude Hulbert) embarks on a frantic chase in pursuit of a psychopathic murderer newly released from prison The prisoner is working through a vengeance list with Claude&s name near the top Directed by Basil Dearden & Will Hay My Learned Friend offers a fascinating insight into the direction Will Hay might have taken if ill health had not caused this Ealing picture to be his last The tone is much darker than his previous films & the humour much of it revolving around a sequence of grisly murders foreshadows the blackest of Ealing&s post-war comedies such as Kind Hearts & Coronets