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Book into this fascinating blend of magical parable and documentary realism adapted from the stage play by Jerome K Jerome. The mood changes when a mysterious stranger (Veidt) rents a room in a boarding house of petulant lodgers. Under his guiding hand ? and on a steamer trip to Margate ? they rediscover their better selves. Viertel and Veidt, with fellow emigres cinematographer Curt Courant and art director Oscar Werndorff, lend a subtle Expressionism to a British drama.

"The types in the small London 'private hotel' are observed with malicious realism." GRAHAM GREENE

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