Turn Back the Clock (1933)
1h 18m
Running Time
August 25, 1933Release Date
Turn Back the Clock (1933)
1h 18m
Running Time
August 25, 1933Release Date
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Plot.
While recuperating in a hospital after he's hit by an automobile, a struggling shopowner dreams what his life might have been like if he'd made different choices twenty years earlier.
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Cast & Crew.
Lee Tracy
Joe Gimlet
Mae Clarke
Mary Gimlet / Mary Wright
Otto Kruger
Ted Wright
George Barbier
Pete Evans
Edgar Selwyn
Director
Ben Hecht
Writer
Clara Blandick
Mrs. Gimlet, Joe's Mother
Charley Grapewin
Dr. Henderson (uncredited)
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Details.
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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.
The film depicts time travel. A middle-aged man from 1933 finds himself inhabiting the body of his younger self in 1910. He uses his knowledge of the future to change both the course off his own life, and a number of economic events.