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
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.
lightheartedwittywhimsicalbriskplayfulsatiricaltongue-in-cheek
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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