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Asking for Trouble (1942)

Asking for Trouble poster
Directed by
Oswald Mitchell
Genre
comedy film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 21m
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A fishmonger decides to become a bookmaker to make some extra money. This leads to a series of comedic situations.

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What happens

Asking for Trouble is a 1942 British comedy film directed by Oswald Mitchell and starring Max Miller, Carole Lynne and Wilfrid Hyde-White. Its plot follows a fishmonger who takes up bookmaking to earn extra cash. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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