Hey! Hey! USA

Benjamin Twist, a teacher working during school holidays as a ship's porter ends up on a ship bound for America and impersonating a professor, Phineas Tavistock. Along with American gangster and stowaway Bugs Leary, Twist finds himself entangled in a plot to kidnap the son of a millionaire whom 'Professor' Tavistock is teaching. Things are further complicated by the fact that two sets of gangsters are attempting to get their hands on the ransom money, which Twist is given to hand over. ==Cast==

• Will Hay as Dr. Benjamin Twist / Professor Phineas Tavistock • Edgar Kennedy as "Bugs" Leary • David Burns as Tony Ricardo • Eddie Ryan as "Ace" Marco • Fred Duprez as Cyrus Schultz • Paddy Reynolds as Mrs. Schultz • Tommy Bupp as Bertie Schultz • Arthur Goullet as "Glove" Johnson • Gibb McLaughlin as Steward • Eddie Pola as Broadcast Announcer • Roddy McDowall as Boy • Peter Gawthorne as Ship's Captain • Charlie Hall as Leary's Pal • Charles Oliver as "Curly" • Danny Green as McGuire, The Chicago Cop • John Salew (Uncredited) • Hugh McDermott (Uncredited) ==Production==

The film was one of several Ted Black produced with Will Hay at Gainsborough. ==Box office==

Kinematograph Weekly reported the film did well at the British box office in December 1938. ==Critical reception==

Sky Movies wrote, "incomparable Will Hay reprises his splendidly shifty Dr Benjamin Twist character (the incompetent headmaster of St Michael's) in this breezy British comedy set in a quaintly observed America full of gun-toting gangsters. Comic stalwart Edgar Kennedy provides slow-burning support under the direction of Marcel Varnel, the dapper Frenchman who made most of Hay's biggest successes. " ==Bibliography==