Oh, Mr. Porter!

Will Hay - William Porter
Moore Marriott - Jeremiah Harbottle
Graham Moffatt - Albert Brown
Percy Walsh - Superintendent
Dave O'Toole - Postman
Sebastian Smith - Mr Trimblelow
Agnes Laughlan - Mrs. Trimbletow
Dennis Wyndham - Grogan
Frederick Piper - Ledbetter

Oh, Mr Porter! Is an undoubted British comedy classic, and one of Will Hay’s best comedic performances. After one catastrophe too many, William Porter (Will Hay), a bungling railway worker is given the job of stationmaster at an obscure and rundown station in rural Ireland. The new appointment is not due to promotion, but his sister who doesn't want to see him in a degrading job and her husband who is happy to see Will as far away as possible if only to end his wife’s nagging.

They arrange for Will to become station master at Buggleskelly, a station that has lost five station masters recently due to insanity - and is apparently haunted by One-Eyed Joe the Miller. His co-workers at his new appointment are a toothless old gaffer (Moore Marriott) who is the deputy stationmaster and a chubby young loud-mouthed porter (Graham Moffatt), who both survive by stealing goods from the railway. The stationmaster attempts to revive his station by stopping passing trains without warning and renovating the appearance of the station with a coat of paint.

Hay tries to persuade some of the locals to use his train service one night in the local pub, but only ends up arranging an excursion for the local football team after unknowingly meeting One Eyed Joe the Miller. Unknown to Porter is that the football team are in reality a gang of gunrunners. When his arranged train departs with the football team it becomes lost on the branch line, and everybody believes there was no train and that Porter has either seen the ghost train or lost his mind like the previous stationmasters. But Hay refuses to accept this excuse and proceeds to trace his lost train, and so ensues a fantastically accelerated locomotive chase when the gunrunners make off with his train. Porter pursues them finds and inventive way of stopping the train in Belfast. Despite the supposed Irish location the film was shot in Basingstoke, England.