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City of Beautiful Nonsense (1935)

City of Beautiful Nonsense poster
Directed by
Adrian Brunel
Genre
drama film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 28m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man falls in love with a woman he meets by chance in London. Their relationship faces challenges from social expectations and past commitments.

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What happens

City of Beautiful Nonsense is a lost 1935 British drama film directed by Adrian Brunel and starring Emlyn Williams, Sophie Stewart and Eve Lister. It was written by Donovan Pedelty based on the best-selling 1909 novel of the same name by E. Temple Thurston, which had previously been filmed as a silent by Henry Edwards in 1919. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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