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My Wife's Family (1941)

My Wife's Family poster
Directed by
Walter C. Mycroft
Genre
comedy film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 22m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man deals with the chaos when his wife's family comes to visit. Based on a stage farce, it focuses on the humorous mishaps that follow.

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What happens

My Wife's Family is a 1941 British domestic comedy film directed by Walter C. Mycroft and starring Charles Clapham, John Warwick, David Tomlinson and Patricia Roc. The film is notable as one of five film versions based on the popular stage farce of the same name by Fred Duprez. There was a previous British version in 1931; a Swedish version Mother-in-Law's Coming, in 1932; a 1933 Finnish film Voi meitä! Anoppi tulee; and a British remake in 1956. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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