Thunder In The City
- 1937 film
An American marketing genius visits his near-penniless English relatives and sets about restoring their aristocratic fortune. Stars Edward G. Robinson, Luli Deste, Nigel Bruce, Constance Collier, Ralph Richardson and more.
Key details
- Genre
- Film
- Released
- 1937
- Stars
- Edward G. Robinson, Luli Deste, Nigel Bruce, Constance Collier, Ralph Richardson, Arthur Wontner, Nancy Burne, Annie Esmond and more
- Writers
- Robert E. Sherwood, Aben Kandel, Akos Tolnay, Dudley Storrick and Jack E. Jewell
- Director
- Marion Gering
- Producer
- Alexander Esway
- Company
When his corporate employers grow tired of his effective but exuberant tactics in the dour post-depression age, New York marketing man Daniel Armstrong is put on enforced holiday leave and decides to pay a visit to England.
Once there he gets in touch with some long-lost relatives, minor members of the aristocracy, and is invited to their country home. It is not long before he discovers that, despite appearances, this well-to-do English branch of his family are in fact almost penniless and relying on a loveless marriage arrangement. The union, it is hoped, will secure the investment required to utilise a mining concession they hold in Rhodesia, and revive the family's their fortunes.
Hoping to save his distant cousin - and perhaps, eventually, win her for himself - Armstrong concocts an ingenious plan to turn around the family's situation, and all within a month. Pulling out every trick he knows, the stage is set for the world to be introduced to the wonders of Magnelite.
Additional details
- Duration
- 88 minutes
- UK release
- Wednesday 13th January 1937
- Distributors
- Production
- Studio
- Camera set-up
- Single camera
- Picture
- Black and white
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Broadcast details
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- Monday 16th September 2024 at 4:05am on TPTV
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