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All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Charles Halton

Charles Halton appears in The Shop Around the Corner, the film adaptation of the book by Miklós László Parfumerie, first published in 1937.
We invite you to watch, read, and vote for either the adaptation or the original, and join the debate on whether the book or the movie is better.
The Shop Around the Corner. Poster of the 1940 movie and cover of the 1937 book, Parfumerie
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Parfumerie
Miklós László, 1937
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The Shop Around the Corner
Ernst Lubitsch, 1940

Alfred Kralik is the top salesman at a leathergoods shop in Budapest owned by the high-strung Mr. Hugo Matuschek. One morning, Kralik reveals to his friend and coworker Pirovitch that he’s been corresponding anonymously with an intelligent and cultured woman whose ad he came across in the newspaper.