Looking Forward

Name: Looking Forward
Director: Clarence Brown
Released: 1933-01-01

1933 film by Clarence Brown

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Released: 1933
Director: Clarence Brown
Screenwriter: Dodie Smith
Producer: Clarence Brown
Cast: Lionel Barrymore
, Lewis Stone
Genre: drama film
Country of origin: United States
Original language: English

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Looking Forward is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Clarence Brown starring Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone and Benita Hume. It was produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The sets and costumes were designed by studio regulars Cedric Gibbons and Adrian. Based on the 1932 Dodie Smith play Service, it depicts the desperate struggle of a London department store owner to save his business during the Great Depression. The film's title was taken from a book by the newly inaugurated president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who is quoted in the film's prologue. The film was strongly backed by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Pictures and Hearst was involved in the securing of the president's support for the film's new title.

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Narrative location: London
Movement: Pre-Code Hollywood
Title: Looking Forward
Color: black-and-white
Director of photography: Oliver T. Marsh
Film editor: Hugh Wynn

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