Marriage of Convenience | |
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Directed by | Clive Donner |
Written by | Robert Banks Stewart |
Based on | The Three Oak Mystery by Edgar Wallace |
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Cinematography | Brian Rhodes |
Edited by | Bernard Gribble |
Music by | Francis Chagrin |
Production company | Merton Park Studios |
Distributed by | Anglo-Amalgamated |
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Running time | 58 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Marriage of Convenience is a 1960 British crime film directed by Clive Donner and starring Harry H. Corbett, John Cairney and John Van Eyssen. [1] The screenplay was by Robert Banks Stewart, based on the 1924 Edgar Wallace novel The Three Oak Mystery . [2] It is part of the series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries films made at Merton Park Studios from 1960 to 1965.
A convict escapes from jail, only to discover that his girlfriend has married the police officer who arrested him.
Marriage of Convenience was the first of the Edgar Wallace series to be allocated to the Rank circuit for general release. It went out as support for Man in the Moon (1960) from January 15, 1961.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Altogether a disappointing addition to Merton Park's new Edgar Wallace series, in that Clive Donner's surprisingly stiff, journeyman style of direction provides nothing to compensate for the generally amateurish level of performance and writing." [3]
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