My Wife's Lodger
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United Kingdom · 1952
1h 20m
Director Maurice Elvey
Starring Dominic Roche, Olive Sloane, Leslie Dwyer, Diana Dors
Genre Comedy
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My Wife’s Lodger finds hapless soldier Willie Higginbottom (Dominic Roche) hoping for a hero’s welcome when he returns home after the war. But, while he was away, shifty spiv Roger the Lodger (Leslie Dwyer) got his arms around his wife and his feet under the table, and now Willie’s ditzy daughter (Diana Dors) only wants to sing, dance and jitterbug!
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