As a companion piece to our Live From New York event, the Oscar-winning director, film historian and silent film champion Kevin Brownlow introduces another Raymond Griffith crime caper.

You'd Be Surprised, featuring inter-titles by the humourist Robert Benchley of Algonquin Round Table fame, provoked mixed reactions on its release and also more recently. A contemporary critic described it as "One of the very best or very worst comedies I ever saw” but when shown recently at Cinecon, Hollywood, it was judged the undisputed hit of the weekend.

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