The Earl of Chicago
Can a Lord of England be a Czar of the underworld?
1940 · 1h 27m · N/A
Drama
Directed by
Richard Thorpe
Overview
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
Director and cast
- Richard Thorpe Director
- Robert Montgomery as Robert Kilmount
- Edward Arnold as Quentin 'Doc' Ramsey
- Reginald Owen as Gervase Gonwell
- Edmund Gwenn as Munsey, the Butler
- E. E. Clive as Mr. Redwood
- Ronald Sinclair as Master Gerald Kilmount
- Norma Varden as Maureen Kilmount
- Halliwell Hobbes as Lord Chancellor
- Ian Wolfe as Reading Clerk (as Ian Wulf)
- Peter Godfrey as Judson
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