Marriage of Convenience (1960 film)

Marriage of Convenience
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Directed by	Clive Donner
Produced by	Jack Greenwood Jim O'Connolly
Written by	Robert Banks Stewart
Based on	The Three Oak Mystery by Edgar Wallace
Starring	John Cairney Harry H. Corbett John Van Eyssen
Music by	Francis Chagrin
Cinematography	Brian Rhodes
Edited by	Bernard Gribble
Production company	Merton Park Studios
Distributed by	Anglo-Amalgamated
Release dates	November 1960
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. Part of the long-running series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries films made at Merton Park Studios, it is based on the 1924 novel The Three Oak Mystery.

Cinema release

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 from January 15th 1961.

Synopsis

A convict escapes from jail, only to discover that his girlfriend has married the police officer who arrested him.

Cast

• Harry H. Corbett as Inspector Bruce
• John Cairney as Larry
• John Van Eyssen as John Mandle
• Jennifer Daniel as Barbara Blair
• Moira Redmond as Tina
• Russell Waters as Sam Spencer
• Trevor Reid as Superintendent Carver
• Howard Goorney as Onion Seller
• Alexander Archdale as Governor
• Geoffrey Denton as Uniformed Inspector
• Patrick Ludlow as Registrar
• Barry MacLean as 1st. Warder
• Basil Beale as 2nd. Warder
• Alex Scott as Vic Ellis
• Patricia Burke as Woman in the Apartment
• Pauline Shepherd as Evie Martin
• Leila Williams as Secretary
• Duncan Burns as Garage Apprentice
• Trevor Maskell as Sergeant Collins

Bibliography

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

• Marriage of Convenience at IMDb