Please Teacher
Opening title card
Directed by	Stafford Dickens
Screenplay by	Stafford Dickens
Based on	an original musical play by K.R.G. Browne, R.P. Weston & Bert Lee
Produced by	Walter C. Mycroft
Starring	Bobby Howes Vera Pearce René Ray
Cinematography	Otto Kanturek
Edited by	Lionel Tomlinson
Music by	Jack Waller Joseph Tunbridge Harry Acres (musical director)
Production company	Associated British Picture Corporation
Distributed by	Wardour Films (UK)
Release dates	16 February 1937 (1937-02-16) (London, UK)
Running time	75 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Please Teacher is a 1937 British comedy film, based on a musical play by KRG Browne, Bert Lee and RP Weston.^[1] This was adapted into a screenplay by Stafford Dickens, who also directed.

Plot

On his 30th birthday, unemployed rogue Tommy Deacon (Bobby Howes) inherits his aunt's fortune, but is informed it has been hidden in a bust of Napoleon in a country house he has also inherited. On discovering the house is now an Academy for Young Ladies, Tommy pretends to be the brother of Anne (René Ray), one of the girls, in order to gain admittance.

Cast

• Tommy Deacon - Bobby Howes
• Petunia Trundle - Vera Pearce
• Ann Trent - René Ray
• Round - Arthur Chesney
• Oswald Clutterbuck - Wylie Watson
• Agatha Pink - Bertha Belmore
• Wing Foo - Lyn Harding
• Reeves - Aubrey Dexter

Critical reception

In 1937, The Sydney Morning Herald wrote, "Although a little slow in getting in to their stride, because of the sluggish opening of the story, the actors manage to vitalise a feeble plot with enough comical characterisation to make it acceptable as average entertainment."^[2]

References

External links

• Please Teacher at IMDb