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My Learned Friend
Directed by	Basil Dearden Will Hay
Produced by	Michael Balcon Robert Harner S.C. Balcon (assoc.)
Written by	John Dighton Angus MacPhail
Starring	Will Hay
Running time	74 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

My Learned Friend is a 1943 British film comedy starring Will Hay. Hay also co-directed along with regular collaborator Basil Dearden. The supporting cast included Claude Hulbert, Mervyn Johns and Ernest Thesiger.

Plot

Hay plays a seedy lawyer who finds himself marked for assassination by a criminal he unsuccessfully defended in the past. He teams up with an incompetent solicitor to try and prevent the deaths of others involved.

The film climaxes with a sequence where Hay hangs from the hands of the clock face of Big Ben in an attempt to prevent a time bomb being detonated. This scene was later borrowed for the 1978 version of The Thirty-Nine Steps and for the Jackie Chan film Shanghai Knights in 2003.

External links

• My Learned Friend at the Internet Movie Database

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