Everything Happens to Me (1938)
A cleaner salesman finds himself campaigning for both sides in an election.
Top billed cast
Max MillerCharles Cromwell
Chili BouchierSally Green
Frederick BurtwellNorman Prodder
Norma VardenMrs. Prodder
Martita Hunt
Ivor BarnardMartin
Allan Jeayes
Eliot Makeham
Roy Emerton
Syd Crossley
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