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Forging Ahead (film)

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Initial release
  
March 1933

Running time
  
49 minutes

Duration
  

Director
  
Norman Walker

Genre
  
Comedy

Writer
  
K.R.G. Browne (novel), Brandon Fleming

Cast
  
Margot Grahame
(Crystal Grey),
Melville Cooper
(Smedley),
Garry Marsh
(Honorable Horace Slimminger),
Clifford Heatherley
(Professor Bowe),
Edith Saville
(Lady Leverton)

Similar movies
  
Turn of the Tide (1935), The Great Mr Handel (1943), John Wesley (1954)

Forging Ahead is a 1933 British comedy mystery film directed by Norman Walker and starring Margot Grahame, Garry Marsh and Anthony Holles. Its plot involves a gang of criminals who pretend a house is haunted in order to keep people away.

It was made at Wembley Studios as a quota quickie.

Cast

  • Margot Grahame as Crystal Grey
  • Garry Marsh as Honorable Horace Slimminger
  • Anthony Holles as Percival Custard
  • Clifford Heatherley as Professor Bowe
  • Clifford Makeham as Abraham Lombard
  • Melville Cooper as Smedley
  • Edgar Norfolk as Lieutenant-Colonel Fair
  • Edith Saville as Lady Leverton

    • References

    Forging Ahead (film) Wikipedia
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    Forging Ahead (film) IMDb