BLACK SHEEP OF WHITEHALL

Original British 12 inch x 18 inch 8 page illustrated Pressbook for the 1941 Basil Dearden & Will Hay Ealing Studios Comedy THE BLACK SHEEP OF WHITEHALL, story and screenplay by Angus MacPhail & John Dighton and starring Will Hay, John Mills, Basil Sydney, Felix Aylmer, Thora Hird, Henry Hewitt, Owen Reynolds, Frank Cellier, Joss Ambler, Leslie Mitchell, George Woodbridge, George Merritt, Aubrey Mallalieu, Diana Beaumont, John Boxer, Cyril Chamberlain, Kenneth Griffith, Katie Johnson, Brefni O’Rorke, Marjorie Rhodes and Ronald Shiner.
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Co-directing, as well as starring, Will Hay is at his blithering best as the incompetent principal of a correspondence college. He stumbles across a dastardly plot involving Nazi Felix Aylmer masquerading as a famous economist so that he and treacherous journalist Basil Sydney can disrupt a vital trade pact between Britain and South America. Adopting a series of hilariously transparent disguises, Hay and sole pupil John Mills capture the villains in a corking chase sequence, with Hay (dressed as a nurse) being dragged along in a Bath chair. This wonderful wartime comedy is the neglected classic in the Hay canon.

Cover art by Dudley Pout (1908 – 1991).

The pressbook is in good condition with one horizontal fold. The cover shows some signs of wear, with an ink stamp top right, a small hole in the same area and several edge tears