The Passing of the Third Floor Back

The Passing of the Third Floor Back

🎞️ Movie 90 min GB
โ˜… 6.9 /10 1935

In a London boarding house, a number of lives exist precariously on the edge of disaster or despair. Stasia, the housemaid, hungers for happiness but is treated like a drudge and constantly threatened with a return to the punishments of her youth. Vivian, a beautiful young girl, loves the architect Chris, but must marry the repugnant Mr. Wright in order to erase her parents' debts. Miss Kite derides all around her out of fear of aging and loss of beauty, while her friend Mr. Larkcom sells mediocre phonograph records though he'd secretly love to be a concert pianist. Into the lives of these and other unhappy residents comes a mysterious stranger, under whose influence they each begin to see the possibility of happiness. But the cynical Mr. Wright prefers to see them in misery and plots to thwart the angelic stranger who lives in the back room of the third floor.

Cast

Conrad Veidt
Conrad Veidt
The Stranger
Rene Ray
Rene Ray
Stasia
Frank Cellier
Frank Cellier
Wright
Anna Lee
Anna Lee
Vivian
John Turnbull
John Turnbull
Major Tomkin
Cathleen Nesbitt
Cathleen Nesbitt
Mrs. Tomkin
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Ronald Ward
Chris Penny
Beatrix Lehmann
Beatrix Lehmann
Miss Kite
Jack Livesey
Jack Livesey
Mr. Larkcom
Sara Allgood
Sara Allgood
Mrs. de Hooley
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Hubert Bath
Composer
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Curt Courant
Cinematographer