In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
Kent Smith
as Gates Trimble Pomfret
Reginald Gardiner
as Assistant Hotel Manager
Victor McLaglen
as Archibald Spavin
Billy Bevan
as Wartime Cabby
Arthur Treacher
as Second Air Raid Watcher
Ruth Warrick
as Lesley Trimble
C. Aubrey Smith
as Eustace Trimble
Edmund Gwenn
as Stubbs
Ray Milland
as Bill Trimble
May Whitty
as Lucy Trimble
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A young American goes to London to sell the ancestral family home, and he spends the night listening to the Germans dropping bombs on the city while the current tenant tells him the entire history of the old mansion. Turns out, "this old house" has quite a backstory! Almost every famous British p...