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...