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Under New Management (1946)

Under New Management poster
Directed by
John E. Blakeley
Genre
comedy film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 30m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A chimney sweep inherits a hotel and hires his ex-army friends to run it. Together they try to make the business work after the war.

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What happens

Under New Management (also known as Honeymoon Hotel) is a 1946 British comedy film directed by John E. Blakeley and starring Nat Jackley, Norman Evans and Dan Young. It was written by Roney Parsons and Blakeley (as Anthony Toner). The screenplay concerns a chimney sweep inherits a hotel and calls on a number of ex-army friends to staff it. The film was one of a number of films at the time dealing with the contemporary issue of demobilisation following the end of the Second World War. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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