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6.6/10   86 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Edgar Selwyn (screenplay) and
Ben Hecht (screenplay)
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Release Date:
25 August 1933 (USA) more
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Plot:
Joe and Mary run a tobacco store and are just scraping by. When old friend Ted comes into the store... more | add synopsis
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Unique for its time - an excellent film for Lee Tracy fans more (4 total)

Cast

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Lee Tracy ... Joe Gimlet
Mae Clarke ... Mary Gimlet / Mary Wright

Otto Kruger ... Ted Wright
George Barbier ... Pete Evans
Peggy Shannon ... Elvina Evans Wright / Elvina Evans Gimlet
C. Henry Gordon ... Dave Holmes
Clara Blandick ... Mrs. Gimlet, Joe's Mother
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Additional Details

Runtime:
79 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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Remade as Repeat Performance (1947) more
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You're the Flower of My Heart, Sweet Adeline more

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6 out of 6 people found the following review useful.
Unique for its time - an excellent film for Lee Tracy fans, 30 April 2005
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Author: Rich La Bonte (flatrich) from Hollywood CA

A unique film of the "if I had it all to do over" variety, Turn Back The Clock gives Lee Tracy a chance to show the full range of his talents as an average Joe who wants a second chance at life and gets it.

Director Edgar Selwyn and screenwriter Ben Hecht delivered a small masterpiece in 1933 that might seem familiar now to later generations. Everyone from Frank Capra to Rod Serling has used the same theme successfully - the lesson to be learned: you can't change the past without consequences, so maybe its better just to be happy with what you have.

TCM has this one in its vault, so see it if you're a Tracy fan. You won't be disappointed. Excellent performances by Mae Clarke and Peggy Shannon as well. Funny and dramatic with some of the delightful over the top stuff you'd expect from an early Thirties film, but fast and insightful at the same time.

Oh, and an uncredited guest bit with The Three Stooges as wedding singers!

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