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Two Smart Men

1940 British film

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Two Smart Men is a 1940 British second feature ('B') comedy film directed, written and produced by Widgey R. Newman and starring Leslie Fuller, Wally Patch and Margaret Yarde.

01Plot

Jimmy gets an invitation from his old friend Henry Smith, to keep him company while his wife is off on a cruise, with his sister Lavinia being left in charge of the house. Social-climbing Lavinia arranges a dinner party and invites a Duchess to meet a new designer. But the latter is a crook, only after the Duchess's jewels.

02Cast

03Reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "There is a good deal of knockabout farce, comic situations and misunderstandings, but the result is only slightly funny. Neither acting nor dialogue is on a high level."

Kine Weekly wrote: "The story covers a lot of territory, and also introduces a new and promising juvenile star in Pamela Bevan, but wide as its scope is it is not, unfortunately, always accompanied by a corresponding number of laughs. ... Still, misleading, haphazard and disjointed as it is, the film is not without popular horseplay. ... Leslie Fuller works hard as Jimmy, and in spite of the part scores a fair number of laughs. Wally Patch and Margaret arde are Wally and Mrs. Smith, but seldom, if ever, have co-stars been dismissed with such inconspicuous roles."

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