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The Passing of the Third Floor Back is a British film of genre Drama directed by Berthold Viertel released in USA on 15 december 1935 with Conrad Veidt

The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1935)

The Passing of the Third Floor Back
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Released in USA 15 december 1935
Length 1h30
Directed by
Genres Drama,    Fantasy,    Romance
Rating68% 3.436863.436863.436863.436863.43686

The Passing of the Third Floor Back is a 1935 British drama film directed by Berthold Viertel and starring Conrad Veidt, Anna Lee, Rene Ray and Frank Cellier. The film is based on a 1908 play and short story by Jerome K. Jerome and depicts the various small-minded inhabitants of a building and the arrival of a stranger who works to redeem them. The work had previously been adapted into a 1918 film version by Herbert Brenon.

Synopsis

The film focuses on a run-down boarding house in London, home to an assorted group of residents. Many of them cling precariously to their social positions with only one figure, the wealthy self-made businessman Mr Wright, being truly successful. The house is owned by the grasping Mrs Sharpe, who mistreats the maid, Stasia, a rehabilitated juvenile delinquent. The various members of the household are miserable and openly sneering and rude towards each other, the one exception being the respect shown by all to the powerful Mr Wright. In the case of one couple, Major Tomkin and his wife, this involves pressuring their daughter Vivian to marry Wright in spite of her obvious horror at the idea.

Actors

Conrad Veidt

(The Stranger)Rene Ray

(Stasia)Anna Lee

(Vivian Tomkin)Ronald Ward

(Chris Penny)Mary Clare

(Mrs. Sharpe)
And :
John Turnbull
Jack Livesey
Frank Cellier
Beatrix Lehmann
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