Always a Bride | |
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Directed by | Ralph Smart |
Written by | Peter Jones Ralph Smart |
Produced by | Robert Garrett George Pitcher Earl St. John |
Starring | Peggy Cummins Terence Morgan Ronald Squire James Hayter |
Cinematography | James Bawden C. M. Pennington-Richards |
Edited by | Alfred Roome |
Music by | Benjamin Frankel |
Production company | Clarion Films |
Distributed by | General Film Distributors |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Always a Bride is a 1953 British comedy film directed by Ralph Smart and starring Peggy Cummins, Terence Morgan and Ronald Squire. [1] [2] It was written by Peter Jones and Smart.
A British father and daughter work a confidence trick up and down the luxury hotels of the French Riviera by posing as a newly married couple. Trouble begins, however, when the daughter falls in love with a tax investigator.
The film's sets were designed by Maurice Carter.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Ralph Smart succeeds in giving this story, with its many unoriginal elements, a certain gloss of humour and telling characterisation. But the dialogue is not, in spite of topicalities about the Dockers and Farouk, sufficiently biting and for a comedy of situation the film is too loosely constructed. Terence Moro gives a pleasant performance, though it is to be doubted if such clean-hearted ingenuousness would ever detect a currency fraud. As the crooks, Ronald Squire and Marie Lohr are well cast, and their ripe, well-bred knavery shows up Peggy Cummins as a sleek but savourless White Sheep of the syndicate. Pleasant entertainment, but quickly forgotten afterwards." [3]
Kine Weekly wrote: "Neither the story nor the dialogue is particularly snappy, but all the same, the principal players and the director succeed in giving the elegant, if slightly stagey, set-up agreeable veneer." [4]
Variety wrote: "Neatly contrived and unpretentious little comedy that should make a good second feature in picture houses in some countries. ... Slow at the start, pic builds to an amusing climax in typical French farce fashion. A group of seasoned players gives an air of credulity to a preposterous situation." [5]
In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "good", writing: "Silly comedy comes off, thanks to polished production, amusing characterization, neat script." [6]
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