This Is the Life (1933)
Directed by Albert de Courville
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Synopsis by Sandra Brennan
In this comedy, the owners of a teahouse inherit a fortune from their uncle and head for London to live the highlife. Unfortunately, they find themselves entangled with a gang of Chicago mobsters and their leader. Fortunately, the hapless duo end up destroying the gang. It is then that they learn that their own fortune was illegally obtained. The humbled twosome return to their middle-class lives and their teahouse, but when they arrive, they discover that it has been turned into a red-hot nightclub.
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gangster, high-society, inheritance, loot, middle-class, rags-to-riches, roadhouse, society, uncle