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The Big Noise is a British film of genre Comedy directed by Frank McDonald with Alastair Sim

The Big Noise (1936)

The Big Noise
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Length 57minutes
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Genres Comedy,    Musical
Rating64% 3.239453.239453.239453.239453.23945

The Big Noise is a 1936 British musical comedy film directed by Alex Bryce and starring Alastair Sim, Norah Howard and Fred Duprez. The film was a quota quickie made at Wembley Studios by the Hollywood studio Fox's British subsidiary.

Synopsis

A clerk in an oil company is promoted in order to make him the fall guy for a series of illegal transactions that have brought it to the brink of ruin, but instead manages to turn the business around

Actors

Alastair Sim

(Finny)Guy Kibbee

(Julius Trent)Fred Duprez

(Henry Hadley)Dick Foran

(Don Andrews)Marie Wilson

(Daisy)
And :
C. Denier Warren
Henry O'Neill
Viola Compton
Olin Howland
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