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05/11/1948 Drama 1h 47m
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Overview

Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Although well intentioned, he becomes mixed up with gangsters and murder. The story focuses on the effects this has on Percy and the other residents.

  1. Sidney Gilliat

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Richard Attenborough

    Percy Boon

  2. Alastair Sim

    Mr. Squales

  3. Fay Compton

    Mrs. Josser

  4. Stephen Murray

    Uncle Henry

  5. Wylie Watson

    Mr. Josser

  6. Susan Shaw

    Doris Josser

  7. Hugh Griffith

    Headlam Fynne

  8. Joyce Carey

    Mrs Vizzard

  9. Ivy St. Helier

    Connie Coke

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-07-09
Richard Attenborough leads a somewhat disjointed cast in this rather lengthy drama. He is "Percy", a rather impressionable young man who lives with his beloved mother (Gladys Henson) in a boarding house amidst a host of interesting lodgers. Sadly for him, he is soon mixed up with the wrong sort - some small time hoodlums - and becomes a murder suspect. I suppose the house to be a metaphor for the broader United Kingdom following the end of WWII - a collection of the aspirational, the optimistic, and the resigned - but there are too many characters for us to keep tabs on, and though the efforts...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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