Storm in a Teacup

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Storm in a Teacup

1937

1h 27m

7.5(28 votes)

Comedy

Romance

Overview

A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.

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26 members

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Vivien Leigh

Victoria Gow

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Rex Harrison

Frank Burdon

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Cecil Parker

Provost William Gow

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Sara Allgood

Honoria Hegarty

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Ursula Jeans

Lisbet Skirving

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Gus McNaughton

Horace Skirving

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Edgar K. Bruce

McKellar

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Robert Hale

Lord Skerryvore

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Quentin McPhearson

Baillie Callender

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Arthur Wontner

Fiscal

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Eliot Makeham

Sheriff

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George Pughe

Menzies

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Arthur Seaton

Police Sergeant

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Cecil Mannering

Police Constable

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Ivor Barnard

Watkins

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Cyril Smith

Councillor

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W.G. Fay

Michael Cassidy

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Scruffy

Patsy

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Robin Burns

Man in Crowd (uncredited)

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Thomas Gallagher

Man in Court (uncredited)

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Cameron Hall

Chauffeur (uncredited)

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Victor Harrington

Man Outside Sheriff's Court (uncredited)

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Stuart Hibberd

News Reader (uncredited)

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Mervyn Johns

Court Bailiff (uncredited)

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Charles Paton

Guest at Official Dinner (uncredited)

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Ernest Roberts

Man (uncredited)

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