Marry Me! (1949 film)
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Original British cinema poster
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| Directed by | Terence Fisher |
| Produced by | Betty Box |
| Written by | Lewis Gilbert Denis Waldock |
| Starring | Derek Bond Susan Shaw |
| Music by | Clifton Parker |
| Cinematography | Ray Elton |
| Edited by | Gordon Pilkington |
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Production
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| Distributed by | General Film Distributors (UK) |
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Release dates
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1949 |
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Running time
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97 min. |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Marry Me! (alternative title: I Want to Get Married[1]) is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Terence Fisher, and starring Derek Bond, Susan Shaw and David Tomlinson.[2]
The movie was known as I Want to Get Married.[3]
Contents
Plot
David Haig (David Tomlinson) is a newspaper journalist who is instructed by his editor to go undercover at a popular matchmaking service in order to get the scoop on whether they are true cupids or not. The film covers several aspiring relationships of various couples. A French woman running from her abusive boyfriend and seeking citizenship, a butler, his master and a schoolteacher, an attraction girl in a restaurant who falls for a priest and various others; as well as the central plot revolving around Haig's disastrous encounters with various poor matchups and his lovematch one young waitress.
The film has elements of dark drama and self-pity leading to lost love, but it is primarily a romantic comedy.
Most of the gentle romances are successful, although sometimes it takes a little 'slapstick' confusion to achieve.
In the end the only relationship that fails is the priest and the allure girl as she believes herself unworthy of his love and rejects him.
Cast
- Derek Bond as Andrew Scott
- Susan Shaw as Pat Cooper
- Patrick Holt as Martin Roberts
- Carol Marsh as Doris Pearson
- David Tomlinson as David Haig
- Zena Marshall as Marcelle Duclos
- Guy Middleton as Sir Gordon Blake
- Nora Swinburne as Enid Lawson
- Brenda Bruce as Brenda Delamere
- Jean Cadell as Hester Parsons
- Denis O'Dea as Saunders
- Alison Leggatt as Miss Beamish
- Beatrice Varley as Mrs. Perrins
References
- ↑ BFI Film database: Marry Me! Retrieved 2012-04-14
- ↑ All Movie entry
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External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Marry Me! at IMDb
- Marry Me! at the British Film Institute's Film and TV Database
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