My Learned Friend

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Will Hay plays a disbarred solicitor who, with the help of Claude, embarks on a frantic chase in pursuit of a psychopathic murderer newly released from prison. The prisoner is working through a vengeance list with Fitch's name near the top... My Learned Friend offers a fascinating insight into the direction Will Hay might have taken if ill health had not caused this Ealing picture to be his last. The tone is much darker than his previous films, and the humour, much of it revolving around a sequence of grisly murders, foreshadows the blackest of Ealing's post-war comedies such as Kind Hearts and Coronets.