Sep 01, 1938
42 min
Full-HD

What Men Live By (1938)

A film based on a story by Leo Tolstoy about a cabinet maker, his wife and an angel punished by God.

Category

Fantasy

Country

United Kingdom

Companies

Gaumont-British Instructional

Eliot Makeham

Simon

Olga Lindo

Martha

Grant Sutherland

Will Oliver

Esmond Knight

Michael

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