21 Days (1940)

Director
Basil Dean

Main cast
Vivien Leigh; Leslie Banks; Laurence Olivier; Francis L. Sullivan; David Horne

Genres
Drama

Description
After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and Wanda have just three weeks together before he must give himself up or let an innocent man go to the gallows.


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