Look Before You Love
| Look Before You Love | |
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| Directed by | Harold Huth |
| Produced by |
John Corfield Harold Huth |
| Screenplay by | Reginald Long |
| Story by | Ketti Frings |
| Starring |
Margaret Lockwood Griffith Jones Norman Wooland |
| Music by | Bretton Byrd |
| Cinematography | Harry Waxman |
| Edited by | John D. Guthridge |
Production company |
Burnham Productions |
| Distributed by | General Film Distributors (UK) |
Release date |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Look Before You Love is a 1948 British drama film directed by Harold Huth and starring Margaret Lockwood, Griffith Jones and Maurice Denham.[1]
Plot summary
A woman working in the British Embassy in Brazil falls in love and marries a man, but soon discovers him to be a drunken wastrel tied up with serious crime.
Cast
- Margaret Lockwood as Ann Markham
- Griffith Jones as Charles Kent
- Norman Wooland as Ashley Morehouse
- Phyllis Stanley as Bettina Colby
- Maurice Denham as Fosser
- Frederick Piper as Miller
- Bruce Seton as Johns
- Michael Medwin as Emile Garat
- Violet Farebrother as Dowager
- Peggy Evans as Typist
Critical reception
In a contemporary review, Variety called the film "an overlong and somewhat corny love story that gives Margaret Lockwood a sympathetic role after her many Wicked Lady characterisations, in which she has been so successfully typed in the past," adding, "it may gratify the out-of-town popular audiences, but its chances of success in any metropolis are scant";[2] while more recently, TV Guide rated the film two out of five stars, dismissing it as a "Ridiculous story played straight; as a farce it might have had some chance."[3]
References
- ↑ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/267235
- ↑ "Variety (December 1948)". archive.org.
- ↑ "Look Before You Love". TVGuide.com.
External links
- Look Before You Love on IMDb
- Look Before Your Love at TCMDB
- Review of film at Variety