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1945 Certificate U
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  • 70
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A drunken, abusive tavern-keeper's adulterous wife uses the backward son of a rigid, puritanical pharmacist who makes his entire family miserable. Read more

Starring Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers, Gordon Jackson, Jean Ireland
Director Robert Hamer
Genres Drama

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Pink String and Sealing Wax

A drunken, abusive tavern-keeper's adulterous wife uses the backward son of a rigid, puritanical pharmacist who makes his entire family miserable.

Starring Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers, Gordon Jackson, Jean Ireland, Sally Ann Howes, Colin Simpson, David Walbridge, Mary Merrall, John Carol
Director Robert Hamer
Studio OPTIMUM
Run time DVD: 1 hr 29 mins
Certificate Certificate U
Genres Drama
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: 12 May 2008
Production year: 1945
Format DVD

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  • Hamer spins his melodrama between two parallel worlds in Victorian Brighton: a suffocatingly middle-class household... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008
  • 1 stars out of 4

    Unusual, carefully handled period crime melodrama which needed a slightly firmer grip.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
    • Posted 02 Mar 2006

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    Rated - 2 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    Pink String and Sealing Wax

    I had waited a long time to see this film, when it eventually arrived I was disappointed. I have an interest in reading real life stories of Victorian poisoners and murderers, and although I realised this was not real life, I though the story would grab my interest, but no, although having a cast of very good British actors, I found the story very weak, mostly centred around the pub (a bit like Coronation St/Eastenders!). Hardly any details about the actual poisoning.

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