He escapes with vital information, but the only way to get to London with it is for his old girlfriend to marry his old enemy. Another no-star bore from director Lance Comfort . Period drama in which Phyllis Calvert is treated badly by husband James Mason and even worse by best friend Margaret Lockwood . This made huge stars of Mason and Lockwood and started off the Gainsborough melodrama cycle. It was considered entertaining tosh then and it still is.
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Edward Everett Horton plays the mild-mannered man whose reflection comes to life and does all the wild things he never could. It's fun and Horton was always good value for money. Script adapt . It's certainly the most thought-provoking, as Capital and Labour unite to stop Alec Guinness ' invention of everlasting cloth. Packed with wonderful performances, it's difficult to single out any for special praise, but I'll just mention Joan Greenwood 's innocent yet sexual rich girl, Vida Hope's butch factory worker with a crush on Guinness, Ernest Thesiger's desiccated tycoon and Edie Martin's frail landlady wondering who'll want her laundry services if clothes never get dirty.