Those Were the Days

Those Were the Days is a 1934 British comedy film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Will Hay in his first major screen role, Iris Hoey, John Mills, and a number of music-hall stars as themselves. It was written by Jack Jordan, Frank Launder and Frederick A. Thompson based on Arthur Wing Pinero's 1885 farce The Magistrate and was the first of two Hay films based on Pinero's plays, the other being Dandy Dick (1935).