5.8 /10 1 Votes
6/10 Filmweb Produced by Anthony Hinds Director Godfrey Grayson Music director Frank Spencer | 5.7/10 IMDb Directed by Godfrey Grayson Initial release 1951 Production company Hammer Film Productions Producer Anthony Hinds | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Screenplay by Reginald Long
Godfrey Grayson (shooting script) Based on the play To Have and to Hold by Lionel Brown Starring Avis Scott
Patrick Barr
Robert Ayres Music by Frank Spencer
Reginald Long Cast Patrick Barr, Avis Scott, Robert Ayres Similar Stolen Hours, A Boy - a Girl and a Bike, Cosh Boy, Stolen Face, Darling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
To Have and to Hold is a 1951 British drama film directed by Godfrey Grayson and starring Avis Scott, Patrick Barr and Robert Ayres. Facing death following a riding accident, a man spends his final days arranging the future romantic needs of his wife.
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Plot
Following a riding accident, country gentleman Brian Harding (Patrick Barr) is crippled and facing imminent death. His final days are spent arranging the future security of his wife and daughter (Avis Scott & Eunice Gayson). This extends to encouraging his wife to developing one of her male friendships into a romantic relationship.
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Critical reception
The Radio Times noted "A non-starry but well-played little drama, claustrophobic, certainly not uninteresting, but not quite good enough"; whereas Britmovie called it a "Stiff upper lip romantic melodrama, not quite so bad as it sounds."