From Britain's Gainsborough Pictures in 1938, here's "Hey! Hey! USA." In this one, Dr. Benjamin Twist (played by Will Hay), a man whose ambitions outstrips his abilities, is a porter on an ocean liner bound for America, who, through a series on convoluted plot twists, finds himself masquerading as a professor. Teaming up with a gangster stowaway (played by Edgar Kennedy), our "hero" finds himself embroiled in a kidnap plot on the far side of the pond that is complicated by the fact that there are two sets of gangsters who are attempting to get their grubby hands on the ransom money.
Based upon Jack Swain's original story with scenario by J. O. C. Orton and dialogue by Marriot Edgar and Val Guest, this motion picture, which also had David Burns, Eddie Ryan, Fred Duprez, Paddy Reynolds, Tommy Bupp, Arthur Gouliet, Gibb McLaughlin, and Eddie Pola in the cast, was produced by Edward Black and directed by Marcel Varnel.
This British-Gaumont picture was controlled throughout the world (save the United States) by General Film Distributors.
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