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Counsel's Opinion (1933)

Counsel's Opinion poster
Directed by
Allan Dwan
Genre
romantic comedy
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 16m
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A romantic comedy set in London about a man and a woman who get entangled in a case of mistaken identity. They end up sharing a hotel room and then have to deal with the comedic fallout.

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What happens

Counsel's Opinion is a lost 1933 British romantic comedy film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Henry Kendall and Binnie Barnes. it was written by Arthur Wimperis and Dorothy Greenhill based on a 1931 play by Gilbert Wakefield. It was one of three films directed in Britain in the early 1930s by Dwan and was an early production from Alexander Korda's London Films. It was remade in 1938 as The Divorce of Lady X. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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