The Butler's Dilemma

The Butler's Dilemma

1943 · 83 min · ★ 6.3 · Comedy

Rodney Playfair is persuaded, by a promise to meet his gambling debts, to impersonate a manservant named Chapman at his fiancée's house...

Directed by Leslie S. Hiscott · Written by Michael Barringer

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