Cast
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
Claude Rains
Ambrose Pomfret
Jessie Matthews
Mildred Trimble
Reginald Owen
Simpson
Ian Hunter
Dexter Pomfret
Charles Laughton
Bellamy
Cedric Hardwicke
Mr. Dabb
Anna Lee
Cornelia Trimble-Pomfret
Patric Knowles
Trimble-Pomfret Son
Edward Everett Horton
Anthony Trimble-Pomfret
Isobel Elsom
Lady Trimble-Pomfret
June Duprez
Julia Trimble-Pomfret
Wendell Hulett
Augustus Trimble-Pomfret
Ida Lupino
Jenny Jones
Brian Aherne
Jim Trimble
Merle Oberon
Marjorie Ismay
Una O'Connor
Caroline Ismay
Nigel Bruce
Major Garrow
Elsa Lanchester
Mamie
Details
Status
Released
Original language
en
Countries
US
Reviews
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 performer took part in this well-done wartime tribute. Kent Smith and Ruth Warrick are the two leads. Just a small sample of the rich cast includes Herbert Marshall, Charles Laughton, ...
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