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Up in the World is a British film of genre Comedy directed by John Paddy Carstairs with Maureen Swanson

Up in the World (1956)

Up in the World
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Length 1h27
Genres Comedy
Rating64% 3.245713.245713.245713.245713.24571

Up in the World is a 1956 comedy film starring Norman Wisdom, Maureen Swanson and Jerry Desmonde, directed by John Paddy Carstairs and produced by Rank.

Norman gets a job as a window cleaner in a stately home where an obnoxious boy has an extremely over-protective mother.

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Un laveur de vitres empêche le fils du manoir où il travaille d'être kidnappé.

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