A Fire Has Been Arranged (1935)
1h 10m
Running Time
June 1, 1935Release Date
A Fire Has Been Arranged (1935)
1h 10m
Running Time
June 1, 1935Release Date
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Plot.
A pair of friends robs from a jewelry shop, and buries their loot in a field out in the country before they get caught. They spend ten years in prison, and when they're let out they go back to the burial ground, only to find out that it's no longer a bucolic pasture but the site of a large department store. Despite that setback, they're still determined to dig up their stash.
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Cast & Crew.
Bud Flanagan
Bud
Chesney Allen
Ches
Harold French
Toby
Mary Lawson
Betty
Alastair Sim
Cutte
Robb Wilton
Oswald
Hal Walters
Hal
Leslie S. Hiscott
Director
Media.
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Wiki.
A Fire Has Been Arranged is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Chesney Allen, Bud Flanagan and Alastair Sim.After a spell in prison three criminals return to recover their loot only to find the place where they have stashed it has been turned into a department store. They take jobs at the store in order to locate the whereabouts of their loot. The three discover that the unscrupulous managers of the store, Shuffle and Cutte, are keen to be accomplices in their plot.
It was made at Twickenham Studios. The film ends with the song Where the Arches Used To Be.