The Clandestine Marriage
"For better...or for worse"
A period film, set around an English country house whose owners want to arrange a marriage of convenience between their elder daughter and an aristocratic heir of a hard-up noble family.
"For better...or for worse"
A period film, set around an English country house whose owners want to arrange a marriage of convenience between their elder daughter and an aristocratic heir of a hard-up noble family.
Nigel Hawthorne
Lord Ogleby
Joan Collins
Mrs. Heidelberg
Timothy Spall
Sterling
Tom Hollander
Sir John Ogelby
Paul Nicholls
Richard Lovewell
Mark Burns
Capstick
Natasha Little
Fanny
Emma Chambers
Betsy
Cyril Shaps
Canton
A period film, set around an English country house whose owners want to arrange a marriage of convenience between their elder daughter and an aristocratic heir of a hard-up noble family.
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