"HERE'S A NEW ARLISS FOR YOU! a completely new personality as a happy-go-lucky rolling stone."
The Guv'nor (released in the U.S. as Mr. Hobo) is a 1935 British comedy film starring George Arliss as a tramp who rides a series of misunderstandings and becomes the president of a bank.
George Arliss
François Rothschild aka The Guv'nor
Gene Gerrard
Flit
Viola Keats
Madelaine Granville
Patric Knowles
Paul
Frank Cellier
Barsac
George Hayes
Dubois
Mary Clare
Mme. Barsac
Henrietta Watson
Mrs. Granville
Ivor Barnard
Vagrant
The Guv'nor (released in the U.S. as Mr. Hobo) is a 1935 British comedy film starring George Arliss as a tramp who rides a series of misunderstandings and becomes the president of a bank.
This is certainly one of George Arliss's more engaging performances, this one. He plays a well educated tramp who is mistaken for a member of the renowned Rothschild family, and is soon on the board of a bank. It turns out that despite his complete lack of training (or, maybe because of it) he has a bit of a penchant for the business - and he also has quite a degree of integrity too. Of course, in the end he gets a comeuppance of sorts, but for the most part this is an enjoyable little comedy feature that pokes fun at the class system, at snobbery and offers quite a lot to giggle at as he illustrates the shallowness of so much of the attitudes of the ruling classes. Maybe a bit long, the joke does begin to strain a little, but a solid supporting cast give Arliss a clear run, and I really quite enjoyed this.
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