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Directed by | Clive Donner |
Written by | Robert Banks Stewart |
Based on | The Three Oak Mystery by Edgar Wallace |
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Cinematography | Brian Rhodes |
Edited by | Bernard Gribble |
Music by | Francis Chagrin |
Production company | Merton Park Studios |
Distributed by | Anglo-Amalgamated |
Release date | 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.[1] 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.[2]
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
References
Bibliography
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
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