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Looking Forward is a american film of genre Drama directed by Clarence Brown released in USA on 28 april 1933 with Lionel Barrymore

Looking Forward (1933)

Looking Forward
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Released in USA 28 april 1933
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OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Rating69% 3.4785653.4785653.4785653.4785653.478565

Looking Forward is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film starring Lionel Barrymore and Lewis Stone. Based on the Dodie Smith play Service, it depicts the desperate struggle of a London department store owner to save his business during the Great Depression.

Synopsis

With his upscale department store steadily losing money, Gabriel Service, Sr. (Lewis Stone) is forced to discharge some of his employees, including an unenterprising but loyal and long-serving Tim Benton (Lionel Barrymore). Then Service returns home to his mansion to inform his family of their own financial straits; he has kept the 200-year-old family firm afloat with his own money in recent times. Neither his young adult children, Caroline and Michael, nor their stepmother Isobel take him very seriously at first, despite his repeated warnings over the past few months. Isobel has also been seeing another man behind her oblivious husband's back.

Actors

Lionel Barrymore

(Tim Benton)Lewis Stone

(Gabriel Service Sr.)Benita Hume

(Mrs. Isobel Service)Elizabeth Allan

(Caroline Service)Phillips Holmes

(Michael Service)
And :
Colin Clive
Alec B. Francis
Doris Lloyd
Halliwell Hobbes
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