“The Picture With a $1,000,000 Cast”
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
René Clair
C. S. Forester
Peter Godfrey
Charles Bennett
Nicholas Musuraca
Anthony Collins
Kent Smith
Gates Trimble Pomfret
Reginald Gardiner
Assistant Hotel Manager
Victor McLaglen
Archibald Spavin
Billy Bevan
Wartime Cabby
Arthur Treacher
Second Air Raid Watcher
Ruth Warrick
Lesley Trimble
C. Aubrey Smith
Eustace Trimble
Edmund Gwenn
Stubbs
Ray Milland
Bill Trimble
May Whitty
Lucy Trimble
Gene Lockhart
Cobblewick
Anna Neagle
Susan Trenchard
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A young American goes to London to sell the ancestral family home, and he spends the night listening to the Germans dropping bombs on the city while the current tenant tells him the entire history of the old mansion. Turns out, "this old house" has quite a backstory! Almost every famous British p...
RKO Radio Pictures