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It Isn't Done is a film directed by Ken G. Hall with Cecil Kellaway
It Isn't Done (1937)
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Add to a movie listIt Isn't Done is a 1937 Australian comedy film about a grazier (Cecil Kellaway) who inherits a barony in England.
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Hubert Blaydon, an Australian farmer, inherits a baronial estate and moves to England with his wife and daughter Patricia to collect it. He finds it difficult to adapt to upper class customs and faces snobbishness from Lord Denvee and difficulties with his butler Jarms. Patricia falls for a writer, Peter Ashton, who is next in line for the title and the estate.Actors
Cecil Kellaway
(Hubert Blaydon)
Ann Richards
(Patricia Blaydon (as Shirley Ann Richards))
John Longden
(Peter Ashton)
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