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The Brown Wallet is a British film of genre Thriller directed by Michael Powell with Patric Knowles
The Brown Wallet (1936)
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Add to a movie listThe Brown Wallet is a 1936 British crime film, directed by Michael Powell and starring Patric Knowles. The Brown Wallet, adapted from a short story by Stacy Aumonier, was one of over 20 quota quickies directed by Powell between 1931 and 1936. It is among eleven of these films of which no extant print is known to survive, and its current status is "missing, believed lost".
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Publisher John Gillespie (Patric Knowles) faces a financial crisis after his business partner skips town with all the firm's assets. Facing ruin, he reluctantly approaches a wealthy aunt for assistance but is met with a stony-faced refusal. Returning home in a taxi, he finds a wallet containing £2,000 left behind by a previous passenger. He takes the wallet, but rather than confiding in his wife he rents a room in which he secretes the money, telling her he needs the room for business purposes.Actors
Patric Knowles
(John Gillespie)
Nancy O'Neil
(Eleanor)
Eliot Makeham
(Hobday)
Charles Hawtrey
(Bit Part (uncredited))
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