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Dear Mr. Prohack is a British film of genre Comedy directed by Thornton Freeland released in USA on 14 july 1950 with Cecil Parker

Dear Mr. Prohack (1949)

Dear Mr. Prohack
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Released in USA 14 july 1950
Length 1h31
Directed by
Genres Comedy,    Romance
Rating60% 3.0016953.0016953.0016953.0016953.001695

Dear Mr. Prohack is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Thornton Freeland. It is a modern-day version of Arnold Bennett's novel "Mr Prohack", starring Cecil Parker, Glynis Johns and Dirk Bogarde.

Synopsis

A civil servant who is extremely frugal with the government's money, suddenly inherits a large fortune and becomes a spendthrift.

Actors

Cecil Parker

(Arthur Prohack)Dirk Bogarde

(Charles Prohack)Hermione Baddeley

(Eve Prohack)Sheila Sim

(Mary Prohack)Glynis Johns

(Mimi Warburton)
And :
Denholm Elliott
Jon Pertwee
Heather Thatcher
Bryan Forbes
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