The Church Mouse

Dec 10, 1934

1h 16m

★ 5.8

Overview

When a meek secretary goes to work for her new boss, she becomes a sophisticated lady.

Genres

Romance

Comedy

Production Companies

Warner Bros. First National

First National Pictures

The Church Mouse Trailers

Cast

Betty

Laura La Plante

Johnathan Steele

Ian Hunter

Wormwood

Edward Chapman

Sylvia

Jane Carr

Sir Oswald Bottomley

Clifford Heatherley

Geoffrey Steele

John Batten

Harry Blump, the Window Washer (uncredited)

Monty Banks

Thomas Stubbings (uncredited)

Gibb McLaughlin

Betty's Mother (uncredited)

Florence Wood

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.

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