Lee Tracy
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Turn Back the Clock is a 1933 American pre-Code MGM fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Edgar Selwyn, written by Selwyn and Ben Hecht, and starring Mae Clarke and Lee Tracy (while under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The protagonist has 20 years of his life to live over.
Turn Back the Clock: Directed by Edgar Selwyn. With Lee Tracy, Mae Clarke, Otto Kruger, George Barbier. Joe and Mary barely get by with their tobacco store. After an old friend returns now married to wealthy Elvina, Joe wishes he married her instead when he had the chance.
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- Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
- Edgar Selwyn
- 1933-08-25
The little-known MGM melodrama Turn Back the Clock (1933) has been given new life by Warner Archive's recent burn-on-demand DVD release. Lee Tracy is first-rate as a man whose frustration with his seemingly unsuccessful life is tested when he finds a way to live his life over again with the knowledge of what's to come.
- Edgar Selwyn, Fred Wilcox
- Lee Tracy
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Joe and Mary run a tobacco store and are just scraping by. When old friend Ted comes into the store, they renew their friendship, even though Ted is now wealthy and married to Elvira, whom Joe could have married himself, and become the rich one. After a domestic squabble Joe is hit by a car, and when he wakes up he is 20 years younger and can ...
Much like the former, Turn Back the Clock is about Joe, a down-on-his-luck cigar store owner, who tires of his nagging wife Mary and reimagines his past with former fling Elvina. Unlike Biff, though, Joe doesn't have to use his noggin as much, because he wakes up from his drunken stupor suddenly transported into the 1910s, 20 years into the past.
Oct 12, 2015 · Turn Back the Clock (1933) “You only live once” is not a phrase that applies to Joe Gimlet (Lee Tracy), a middle-aged New York man who runs a cigar shop. One day, his shop is visited by Ted Wright (Otto Kruger), an old friend from childhood in the small town of Corliss. Ted has had much better fortune than Joe and works as a bank president.
