My Wifes Family (1941 film)
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Genre Comedy Screenplay Norman Lee, Clifford Grey Language English | Director Walter C. Mycroft Music director Charles Williams Duration Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writer Clifford Grey , Norman Lee Release date July 1941 Based on the play by Fred Duprez (story by Harry B. Linton and Hal Stephens) Initial release July 1941 (United Kingdom) Cast Patricia Roc (Peggy Gay), Charles Clapham (Doc Knott), David Tomlinson (Willie Bagshott), John Warwick (Jack Gay), Wylie Watson (Noah Bagshott)Similar movies The Flanagan Boy (1953), A Stranger Came Home (1954), The Last Page (1952), Syncopation (1929), The Love Parade (1929) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
My Wife's Family is a 1941 British domestic comedy film directed by Walter C. Mycroft and starring Charles Clapham, John Warwick, David Tomlinson and Patricia Roc.
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The film is notable as one of five film versions based on the popular stage farce of the same name by Fred Duprez. There was a previous British version in 1931,; a Swedish version Svärmor kommer, in 1932; a 1933 Finnish film Voi meitä! Anoppi tulee; and a British remake in 1956.
Plot
A farce concerning the attempts of a naval officer to avoid a visit from his wife's overbearing mother-in-law, and cope with a former girlfriend at the same time.
Cast
Critical reception
TV Guide wrote, "every old joke you never wanted to hear repeated is packed into this dusty, but still mildly amusing comedy." Allmovie gave the film two out of five stars, and referred to the film as an "old-joke-filled farce."
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My Wife's Family (1941 film) WikipediaMy Wifes Family (1941 film) IMDb