The Trojan Brothers (film)

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The Trojan Brothers
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Directed by Maclean Rogers
Written byIrwin Reiner
Maclean Rogers
Based on The Trojan Brothers by Pamela Hansford Johnson
Produced by Louis H. Jackson
Starring Patricia Burke
David Farrar
Bobby Howes
Cinematography Moray Grant
Ernest Palmer
Edited by Paul Capon
Music by Hans May
Production
company
Distributed byAnglo-American Film Corporation
Release date
  • 4 February 1946 (1946-02-04)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Trojan Brothers is a 1946 British comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Patricia Burke, David Farrar and Bobby Howes. [1] It is an adaptation of the 1944 novel of the same title by Pamela Hansford Johnson.

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Synopsis

The two halves of a London music hall act performing together as a pantomime horse have a sharp falling out when one of them begins a relationship with an attractive society woman.

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References

  1. Murphy p.522

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