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No Room for the Groom
GERMANY · 1952

No Room for the Groom

Douglas Sirk
elopement military romance family interference wedding night complications class differences
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Synopsis

A young GI elopes to Las Vegas with his housekeeper’s daughter, but delays to their wedding night arise from illness, her manipulative mother, and a house full of relatives.

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