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She Couldn't Say No (1939)

She Couldn't Say No poster
Directed by
Graham Cutts
Genre
comedy film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 12m
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman hires burglars to steal back a diary that contains embarrassing secrets. The plan goes wrong in comedic ways.

lightheartedplayfulbreezycomedicsillyfast-pacedmischievousdated charm

What happens

She Couldn't Say No is a 1939 British comedy film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Tommy Trinder, Fred Emney and Googie Withers. It was written by Clifford Grey, Bert Lee and Elizabeth Meehan based on the 1927 play Funny Face by Paul Gerard Smith and Fred Thompson. A woman arranges a burglary to try to recover a stolen diary with compromising details written in it. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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