- Actors: Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Charles Hawtrey, Raymond Huntley, Felix Aylmer
- Directors: Marcel Varnel
- Classification: U
- Studio: Dd Video
- VHS Release Date: 18 Oct 1999
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004CZN0
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,784 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
Despite not featuring Moore Marriott or Graham Moffat, this is in many ways the peak of Will Hay's film career. Charles Hawtrey and Claude Hulbert provide quality support as competent schoolboys assisting an incompetent master, however, and make this a slightly more serious type of comedy than we are used to from the eccentric trio.
There is atmosphere aplenty in the old dark house taken over for use as a wartime school, and this even has a bit of a Scooby-Doo feel to it. The advantage it has is that the comedy is counterbalanced by the ghost/Nazi/detective story, giving you a drama with characters you like and a comedy with a near-realistic setting. Despite these films' sporadic television appearances these days, I don't think it has dated as much as many war time films, and I would recommend it to anyone who likes a good laugh and a good ghost story.
21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
They don't make em like this any more! A fast paced comedy-thriller which shows Will Hay at his best. You could argue that being in black and white adds to the atmosphere of this wartime ghost story. Some great comedy moments, which I never get tired of seeing, spiced up with a dose of wartime espionage. Great viewing on a stormy night with a well laden supper tray!
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
Bright and cheery wartime comedy, in which the boisterous lads of St Michaels are evacuated to a remote castle on the Isle Of Skye. Of course the place is haunted (and being Scotland, it naturally has to be a phantom piper whose appearance foretells doom to any who hear him), but it also comes complete with a Nazi spying ring. Will Hay is on top bumbling form as science teacher Mr Lamb, who gets Isaac Newton confused with William Tell, and he gets able support from a young and exuberant Charles Hawtrey, and John Laurie doing his wild-eyed mad Scotsman routine. Fast-paced, and quite atmospheric in its gothic Scottish castle setting. Nothing creaky about this comedy.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Will Hay
Thsi is a poor example of Will Hay films. I don't recommend it. The other Will Hay film from the same time, 'My Learned Friend', is very good.
Published 14 days ago by Noel Maw
I didn't see one
What poverty of imagination suggests to a filmmaker that it would be an excellent idea to use "ghost" in the title of a comedy, and then not show one? Read more
Published 6 months ago by killer b
Baa Lamb and The Ghost Of St. Michaels.
Will Hay is back as a hapless teacher, this time he is William Lamb, who is hired to teach on the remote Scottish Isle of Skye. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Spike Owen
Funny film at good price
I bought it as a gift for my daughter as it's one of the first films starring Charles Hawtry & she's a collector of all items 'Carry On' et al. A successful purchase.
Published on 15 Dec 2009 by P. A. Rowberry
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