Boys Will Be Boys

• Director: William Beaudine
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Comedy
• Release Year: 1936
• Country: UK
• Run Time: 75 minutes

Plot

While the Hollywood output of director William "One-Take" Beaudine was largely uninspired, he turned out several first-rate efforts while employed in England in the mid-1930s. Beaudine's Boys Will be Boys stars the inimitable Will Hay, cast in his standard role as a pompous, ineffectual schoolmaster. Upon learning that the father (Gordon Harker) of one of his students is a thief, do-gooder Hay tries to redirect the reprobate towards the Straight and Narrow--and nearly gets pinched as a criminal himself. Hay's perennial comic foils Graham Moffatt and Moore Marriott are nowhere to be found in this escapade, but they're not really missed this time around. Star Will Hay co-wrote the screenplay with Robert Edmunds. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Claude Dampier - Theo P. Finch; Charles Farrell - Louis Brown; Jimmy Hanley - Cyril Brown; Gordon Harker - Faker Brown; Norma Varden - Lady Korking; Percy Walsh - Governor; Will Hay - Dr. Alec Smart; Davy Burnaby - Col. Crableigh

Credit

William Beaudine - Director, Charles Van Enger - Cinematographer, Michael Balcon - Producer, Robert Edmunds - Screenwriter, Will Hay - Screenwriter

Occasionally girls will be girls.

Youth will be youthfull, when you haue saide all that you can.
[1601 A. Dent Plain Man's Pathway 64]

Girls will be girls. They like admiration.
[1826 T. H. Lister Granby II. vii.]

As for the pink bonnets‥why boys will be boys.
[1848 Thackeray Vanity Fair xiii.]

I tried to tell him that boys will be boys and you're only young once.
[1964 Wodehouse Frozen Assets iii.]

Firecrackers are illegal in Indonesia. However, they can be purchased on the black market during celebrations such as Eid Al-Fitr‥And boys will be boys, the world over.
[2000 W. Northcutt Darwin Awards iv. 108]

Related to: human nature

Bibliography of major proverb collections and works cited from modern editions is available here.

One can expect boys to act childishly or misbehave, as in We told the kids not to eat in the living room, but when we got home there was a big mess there--oh well, boys will be boys. This term came from a Latin proverb, translated as "Children [boys] are children [boys] and do childish things." In English it was first recorded in 1589.

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