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The Blakes Slept Here (1953)
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Add to a movie listThe Blakes Slept Here is a 1953 film directed by Jacques B. Brunius. Brunius also wrote the screenplay along with Roy Plomley. The 36-minute film chronicles the life of a middle class British family from roughly 1850 to the end of World War II.
Actors
Norman Shelley
(Self - Commentator)
David King-Wood
(Richard)
Peter Coke
(William)
Ursula Howells
(Emily)
David Markham
(Edward)
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