| Always a Bride | |
| Director: | Ralph Smart |
| Producer: | Robert Garrett George Pitcher Earl St. John |
| Starring: | Peggy Cummins Terence Morgan Ronald Squire James Hayter |
| Music: | Benjamin Frankel |
| Cinematography: | James Bawden C. M. Pennington-Richards |
| Editing: | Alfred Roome |
| Studio: | Clarion Films |
| Distributor: | General Film Distributors |
| Runtime: | 82 minutes |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
Always a Bride is a 1953 British comedy film directed by Ralph Smart and starring Peggy Cummins, Terence Morgan and Ronald Squire.[1] [2] It was written by Peter Jones and Smart.
A British father and daughter work a confidence trick up and down the luxury hotels of the French Riviera by posing as a newly married couple. Trouble begins, however, when the daughter falls in love with a tax investigator.
The film's sets were designed by Maurice Carter.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Ralph Smart succeeds in giving this story, with its many unoriginal elements, a certain gloss of humour and telling characterisation. But the dialogue is not, in spite of topicalities about the Dockers and Farouk, sufficiently biting and for a comedy of situation the film is too loosely constructed. Terence Moro gives a pleasant performance, though it is to be doubted if such clean-hearted ingenuousness would ever detect a currency fraud. As the crooks, Ronald Squire and Marie Lohr are well cast, and their ripe, well-bred knavery shows up Peggy Cummins as a sleek but savourless White Sheep of the syndicate. Pleasant entertainment, but quickly forgotten afterwards."[3]
Kine Weekly wrote: "Neither the story nor the dialogue is particularly snappy, but all the same, the principal players and the director succeed in giving the elegant, if slightly stagey, set-up agreeable veneer."[4]
Variety wrote: "Neatly contrived and unpretentious little comedy that should make a good second feature in picture houses in some countries. ... Slow at the start, pic builds to an amusing climax in typical French farce fashion. A group of seasoned players gives an air of credulity to a preposterous situation."[5]
In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "good", writing: "Silly comedy comes off, thanks to polished production, amusing characterization, neat script."[6]