Love's a Luxury

5.2/1019521h 29mReleased

Comedy

A theatre producer and actor try in vain to have a quiet week in a country cottage. But their efforts turn into comic disaster as a variety of wives, girlfriends and scoutmasters arrive uninvited.

Released: Oct 1, 1952

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Hugh Wakefield

Charles Pentwick

Derek Bond

Robert Bentley

Michael Medwin

Dick Pentwick

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