The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1935)

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90 min - Comedy | Drama | Fantasy - 15 December 1935 (USA)

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The tenants of an old boarding house are terrorized by an evil slumlord. One day a strange man arrives at the house and begins to help them with their problems.

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Cast

Cast overview:
	Conrad Veidt	...	The Stranger
	René Ray	...	Stasia (as Rene Ray)
	Frank Cellier	...	Wright
	Anna Lee	...	Vivian
	John Turnbull	...	Major Tomkin
	Cathleen Nesbitt	...	Mrs. Tomkin (as Catherine Nesbitt)
	Ronald Ward	...	Chris Penny
	Beatrix Lehmann	...	Miss Kite
	Jack Livesey	...	Mr. Larkcom
	Sara Allgood	...	Mrs. de Hooley
	Mary Clare	...	Mrs. Sharpe
	Barbara Everest	...	Cook
	Alexander Sarner	...	The Gramophone Man

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In a London boarding house, a number of lives exist precariously on the edge of disaster or despair. Stasia, the housemaid, hungers for happiness but is treated like a drudge and constantly threatened with a return to the punishments of her youth. Vivian, a beautiful young girl, loves the architect Chris, but must marry the repugnant Mr. Wright in order to erase her parents' debts. Miss Kite derides all around her out of fear of aging and loss of beauty, while her friend Mr. Larkcom sells mediocre phonograph records though he'd secretly love to be a concert pianist. Into the lives of these and other unhappy residents comes a mysterious stranger, under whose influence they each begin to see the possibility of happiness. But the cynical Mr. Wright prefers to see them in misery and plots to thwart the angelic stranger who lives in the back room of the third floor. Written by Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>

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