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Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945)

11/22/1945 Thriller, Drama, Crime 1h 29m
63%
User
Score
6.7/10

Overview

Melodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering pharmacist to assist in the poisoning of her drunkard husband. (The title is from the way pharmacists used to wrap parcels containing poison).

Diana Morgan

Writer

Robert Hamer

Director

Top Billed Cast

Mervyn Johns

Mervyn Johns

Edward Sutton

Googie Withers

Googie Withers

Pearl Bond

Gordon Jackson

Gordon Jackson

David Sutton

Garry Marsh

Garry Marsh

Joe Bond

Jean Ireland

Jean Ireland

Victoria Sutton

Sally Ann Howes

Sally Ann Howes

Peggy Sutton

Mary Merrall

Mary Merrall

Ellen Sutton

Catherine Lacey

Catherine Lacey

Miss Porter

Frederick Piper

Frederick Piper

Dr. Pepper

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Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written on February 17, 2019

Dastardly Doings At The Dolphin

Pink String and Sealing Wax is directed by Robert Hamer and adapted to screen by Diana Morgan from the play written by Roland Pertweee. It stars Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers, Gordon Jackson, Jean Ireland and Sally Ann Howes. Music is by Norman Demuth and cinematography by Stanley Pavey.

The wife of a pub landlord plots to rid herself of her abusive husband - roping in the innocent son of a chemist to achieve her aims.

One can sometimes forget that Ealing Studios was not solely about crafty comedies, it was a production house of many genre splinters. Here they dabble in the realm of the dark period piece, setting it in Victorian England down on the South Coast in Brighton. Essentially it's a straight forward plot line of a potential murderess and the...

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