WILL HEY IN WHERE'S THAT FIRE - 1940

Where's That Fire? is a 1940 British comedy film, produced by Twentieth Century
Fox, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Will Hay, Moore Marriott and Graham
Moffatt. It was the last film Will Hay made with his stuntmen Moore Marriott and
Graham Moffatt and the humour of Hay's films after he dropped work with them
changed.

Will Hay plays the incompetent Fire Captain Viking who fails to find a large fire, gets
lost in the process and ends up on a newspaper headline as 'The engine that never
made it'. Then after failing to appear before the town hall burns down, Fire Captain
Viking is told to put out a fire successfully or else he and his men face the sack.Not
only do they fail in this objective, but their fire engine is stolen by criminals intent
on stealing the crown jewels from the Tower of London.The location of the fire
station (external shots only) is the former Angel and Crown pub overlooking the
village pond, Mill Hill, London NW7. A lost film for many years, it was rediscovered by
the BBC in 1975. It has never officially been released on VHS or DVD, although it is
now in the public domain and is available on numerous compilations.

Will Hay - Captain Viking
Moore Marriott - Jeremiah Harbottle
Graham Moffatt - Albert
Peter Gawthorne - Fire Chief
Eric Clavering - Hank Sullivan
Hugh McDermott - Jim Baker
Charles Hawtrey - Woodley
Dave O'Toole - Postman