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Troublesome Wives (1928)

Troublesome Wives poster
Directed by
Harry Hughes
Genre
silent film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 10m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Two housewives get tangled up with a foreign spy network. It is a silent comedy from 1928 based on a play.

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What happens

Troublesome Wives is a 1928 British silent comedy film directed by Harry Hughes and starring Eric Bransby Williams, Mabel Poulton and Lilian Oldland. It was based on the play Summer Lightning by Ernest Denny. The screenplay concerns two housewives who become embroiled with a foreign spy network. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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