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My Learned Friend
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My Learned Friend is a British film comedy starring Will Hay. Hay also co-directed this 1943 film, along with regular collaborator Basil Dearden. The supporting cast included Claude Hulbert, Mervyn Johns and Ernest Thesiger.
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
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 other 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.
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