Pink String and Sealing Wax
6.8 /10 1 Votes
Director Robert Hamer Music director Norman Demuth Country United Kingdom | 6.6/10 IMDb Genre Drama, Thriller Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 3 December 1945 (1945-12-03) (UK ) Based on Pink String and Sealing Wax (play)
by Roland Pertwee Writer Roland Pertwee (play), Diana Morgan (screenplay), Robert Hamer (script contribution) Initial release November 22, 1945 (United Kingdom) Screenplay Robert Hamer, Roland Pertwee, Diana Morgan Cast Mervyn Johns (Edward Sutton), Gordon Jackson (David Sutton), Googie Withers (Pearl Bond), Garry Marsh (Joe Bond), Jean Ireland (Victoria Sutton), Sally Ann Howes (Peggy Sutton)Similar movies Find Your Man , My Dad , Jaws of Steel , Under the Black Eagle , Below the Line , Love | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pink String and Sealing Wax is a 1945 British drama film directed by Robert Hamer and starring Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers and Gordon Jackson. It is based on a play with the same name by Roland Pertwee. It was the first feature film Robert Hamer directed on his own.
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Plot summary
The wife of a pub landlord in Victorian Brighton, who is having an affair, wants to rid herself of her abusive husband. To accomplish this she befriends a young man who works in his father's chemist shop and thus has access to poison.
Release
The film premiered in London on 3 December 1945 at the Tivoli Cinema on The Strand and the Marble Arch Pavilion. The critic in The Times praised Googie Withers and Gordon Jackson for their roles, and concluded that Robert Hamer, "has made, in spite of occasional lapses and longueurs, a promising beginning as a director."
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