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Laburnum Grove (1936)

Laburnum Grove poster
Directed by
Carol Reed
Genre
comedy film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 13m
Rating
8.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A suburban family's life is upended when the father claims he is secretly a forger. As his relatives react with shock and greed, the story plays out as a gentle comedy of manners.

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What happens

Laburnum Grove is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Carol Reed and starring Edmund Gwenn, Cedric Hardwicke and Victoria Hopper. It was based on the 1933 play of the same name written by J. B. Priestley. Gwenn, Ethel Coleridge, Francis James, James Harcourt and David Hawthorne all repeated their roles from the play's original 1933-34 West End production, which had been directed by Hardwicke. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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