Crown v. Stevens
When an ex-dancer marries a man for his money she is surprised to find he is a real skinflint. She owes a lot of money to a loan-shark who is after her. However, her husband does carry a lot of life insurance.
Top Cast
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Beatrix Thomson
Doris Stevens
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Patric Knowles
Chris Jensen
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Glennis Lorimer
Miss Molly Hobbes
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Reginald Purdell
Alf
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Allan Jeayes
Inspector Carter
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Frederick Piper
Arthur Stevens
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Googie Withers
Ella Levine
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Mabel Poulton
Mamie
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Davina Whitehouse
Maggie - Stevens' Maid
Overview
When an ex-dancer marries a man for his money she is surprised to find he is a real skinflint. She owes a lot of money to a loan-shark who is after her. However, her husband does carry a lot of life insurance.
Rating
6.5
/ 10
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1 Reviews
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CinemaSerf6 Sep 3, 2022This is quite a decent little pot boiler that sees "Doris" (Beatrix Stevens) married to her wealthy, but thrifty husband "Alf" (Reginald Purdell). Now to put it mildly, she is pretty beastly to him and as she finally tires of his reluctance to waste his money on her, she conceives of a plan to get shot of him and claim his substantial life insurance - and she manages to embroil his rather naive, but equally cash-strapped, employee "Jensen" (Patric Knowles) in her plotting too. The title is a touch misleading; this isn't remotely a court-room drama. It is, though, quite a niftily paced drama about a greedy woman with a distinctly dodgy moral compass who ultimately comes a cropper in rather underwhelming fashion. There is no real jeopardy to the simple plot, indeed the whole thing is pretty much join-the-dots cinema, but you can see here that Knowles has a little je ne sais quoi about him. Although the production is distinctly basic, it still passes an hour effortlessly enough.
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