Brothers in Law (1957)

Directed by

Roy Boulting

Genre

comedy film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A young lawyer stumbles through his early cases in a British court, often causing laughter with his mistakes and awkwardness. He deals with quirky colleagues and eccentric clients as he learns the ropes of the legal profession.

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What happens

Brothers in Law is a 1957 British comedy film directed by Roy Boulting and starring Richard Attenborough, Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas and Jill Adams. It was written by Boulting, Jeffrey Dell and Frank Harvey Jr., adapted from the 1955 novel Brothers in Law by Henry Cecil, a comedy set in the legal profession. The film is one of the Boulting brothers' successful series of institutional satires that began with Private's Progress in 1956. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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