Turn Back the Clock (1933)
- Directed by
- Edgar Selwyn
- Genre
- comedy film, fantasy film, comedy drama
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 18m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 5.4 of 10 from 10 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A middle-aged man in 1933 gets a chance to relive his past when he wakes up in his younger body in 1910. He uses his future knowledge to alter his life and take advantage of upcoming economic events.
wistfullightheartedwhimsicalslightly bittersweetoptimisticcomedicfast-pacedspeculative
What happens
Turn Back the Clock is a 1933 American pre-Code MGM fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Edgar Selwyn, written by Selwyn and Ben Hecht, and starring Mae Clarke and Lee Tracy (while under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The protagonist has 20 years of his life to live over. The film depicts time travel. A middle-aged man from 1933 finds himself inhabiting the body of his younger self in 1910. He uses his knowledge of the future to change both the course off his own life, and a number of economic events. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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