My Learned Friend (1943) review

Formerly incarcerated crackpot Grimshaw (Mervyn Johns) wants revenge against everyone responsible for his going to prison (he had a "beautiful fiasco of a defense") so his attorney William Fitch (Will Hay, who co-directed) partners up with slightly dimwitted barrister Babbington (Claude Hulbert) to try to stop the killings.  Even though it's a smidge too choppy and quite silly (although maybe that's what audiences needed in '43), there is a lot of terrific banter to take in (if that's your thing) and a bar brawl and a theatrical production that get out of hand very quickly ... and it concludes with our characters dangling off of Big Ben, which was most certainly "inspired" by a certain Harold Lloyd comedy from 1923.  This was Hay's last movie and he was apparently was influential in the British film world (and an amateur astronomer as well!) but I rarely hear him mentioned over here - he comes across as a less boozy and more bookish version of our W. C. Fields.