Off the Dole

Off the Dole

1935 · 89 min · ★ 6.6 · Comedy, Music

Without a job, a young man is given the opportunity to run his ill uncle's private-detective agency. He finds himself mixed up with everything from an unfaithful husband who is a secret nudist to a schoolteacher who believes his pupil's father is beating him.

Directed by Arthur Mertz · Written by George Formby

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