4.8
Easy Living
2017
Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945)
November 22, 19451h 29mEN
6.0
19 votes
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).
Director
Robert HamerWriters
Top Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
N/A
Revenue
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Production Companies
Ealing Studios
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John Chard
7.0Dastardly 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. Her…
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