Where There's a Will

Where There's a Will

1955 · 80 min · ★ 6.9 · Comedy

A Cockney family inherit a ramshackle Devon farm. The rest of the family don't want to leave London but the father insists and off they go, to face the unknown.

Directed by Vernon Sewell · Written by R.F. Delderfield

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