- Marry Me (1949 film)
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Marry Me Directed by Terence Fisher Starring Derek Bond Release date(s) 1949 Running time 97 min. Country United Kingdom Language English Marry Me is a 1949 British comedy film film directed by Terence Fisher, and starring Derek Bond, Susan Shaw and David Tomlinson.[1]
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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
External links
- Marry Me at the Internet Movie Database
Films directed by Terence Fisher 1940s 1950s The Astonished Heart (1950) · So Long at the Fair (1950) · Home to Danger (1951) · The Last Page (1952) · Wings of Danger (1952) · Stolen Face (1952) · Distant Trumpet (1952) · Mantrap (1953) · Four Sided Triangle (1953) · Spaceways (1953) · Blood Orange (1953) · Face the Music (1954) · Murder by Proxy (1954) · A Stranger Came Home (1954) · Final Appointment (1954) · Mask of Dust (1954) · Children Galore (1955) · Stolen Assignment (1955) · The Flaw (1955) · The Gelignite Gang (1956) · The Last Man to Hang? (1956) · Kill Me Tomorrow (1957) · The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) · Dracula (1958) · The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958) · The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) · The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959) · The Mummy (1959)1960s The Stranglers of Bombay (1960) · The Brides of Dracula (1960) · The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960) · Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960) · The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) · The Phantom of the Opera (1962) · Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962) · The Horror of It All (1963) · The Gorgon (1964) · The Earth Dies Screaming (1964) · Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) · Island of Terror (1966) · Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) · Night of the Big Heat (1967) · The Devil Rides Out (1968) · Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)1970s Categories:- British films
- English-language films
- 1949 films
- British comedy films
- 1940s comedy films
- Films directed by Terence Fisher
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