Love in Pawn

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Love in Pawn
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Directed by Charles Saunders
Written byHumphrey Knight
Guy Morgan
Frank Muir
Denis Norden
Produced by Robert S. Baker
Monty Berman
Starring Bernard Braden
Barbara Kelly
Jeannie Carson
CinematographyMonty Berman
Edited byGordon Pilkington
Music byTemple Abady
Production
company
Distributed by Eros Films
Release date
  • November 23, 1953 (1953-11-23)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Love in Pawn is a 1953 British comedy film directed by Charles Saunders and starring Bernard Braden, Barbara Kelly and Jeannie Carson. [1] It was written by Humphrey Knight, Guy Morgan, Frank Muir and Denis Nordern.

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Critical reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "This film has an amusing basic idea for its plot, but fails to be really funny. The script seems far more suitable for radio (the numerous puns and pauses make the pace wrong for a screen comedy) and the characterisation is, on the whole, weak." [2]

The Radio Times Guide to Films gave the film 1/5 stars, writing: "Britain's popular radio (and later TV) imports from Canada, Bernard Braden and his wife Barbara Kelly, star in this indescribably puerile and unfunny comedy ... Best forgotten, which it was." [3]

In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "mediocre", writing: "Popular radio husband-and-wife team in comedy that is just silly, not funny." [4]

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References

  1. "Love in Pawn". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  2. "Love in Pawn". The Monthly Film Bulletin . 20 (228): 164. 1 January 1953 via ProQuest.
  3. Radio Times Guide to Films (18th ed.). London: Immediate Media Company. 2017. p. 563. ISBN   9780992936440.
  4. Quinlan, David (1984). British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd. p. 340. ISBN   0-7134-1874-5.