Trans Allegories in Film: 'Robots' (2005)
Animation as a medium of storytelling can be thought to be open to all ages and as I hope my readings will reveal, they could be interpreted as transgender stories.
Where There's a Will
Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, which Hay confiscates so that he can read it later. Stubbins later takes a job from a group of Americans who claim they want him to track down some ancestors of theirs in Scotland. In reality however they want to use his office so they can rob a safe in the room immediately below his office. Stubbins takes the job (which is designed to keep him out of the office). In the end Stubbins realises his mistake and at a Christmas Eve fancy dress party he informs a group of carol singing policeman about the Americans nefarious activities
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Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, which Hay confiscates so that he can read it later. Stubbins later takes a job from a group of Americans who claim they want him to track down some ancestors of theirs in Scotland. In reality however they want to use his office so they can rob a safe in the room immediately below his office. Stubbins takes the job (which is designed to keep him out of the office). In the end Stubbins realises his mistake and at a Christmas Eve fancy dress party he informs a group of carol singing policeman about the Americans nefarious activities
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Genre:Comedy
Written By:Will Hay, Robert Edmunds, William Beaudine
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Runtime:80 minutes
Studio:Gainsborough Pictures
Cast
William Beaudine
Director
Will Hay
Benjamin Stubbins
H.F. Maltby
Sir Roger Wimpleton
Norma Varden
Lady Margaret Wimpleton
Peggy Simpson
Barbara Stubbins
Gibb McLaughlin
Martin, The Butler
Gina Malo
Goldie Kelly
Hartley Power
Duke Wilson
Eddie Houghton
Slug Riley
Hal Walters
Nick Harris
Sybil Brooke
Mrs Peabody, Landlady
Davina Whitehouse
Lucie, The Maid
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