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The Passing Of The Third Floor Back

1935, Movie, NR, 80 mins

The Passing Of The Third Floor Back: Review

Decent film adaptation of a popular Victorian morality play casts Veidt as a mysterious and gentle-looking stranger who appears out of the night to take a room in a run-down boardinghouse presided over by avaricious landlord Cellier. Veidt takes the only vacant room, in the back on the third floor, and soon becomes involved in the lives and travails of the other, mostly pathetic denizens of the shabby boardinghouse. In addition to Cellier, who preys on the poverty of the res... read more leave a comment