PINK STRING AND SEALING WAX
HE awful effects. of a Victorian father’s repression of his children are depicted in this British film. It should be an exciting as well as an improving chronicle.
because everything leads up to a murder, but it isn’t, in spite of strong local colour and some very nice bits of acting. Mervyn Johns plays the stern parent, an ultra-respectable chemist, and Gordon Jackson is his erring son who, frustrated by papa in an honourable romance with a baronet’s daughter, forms a liaison with the adulterous and homicidal wife of the local publican, and becomes innocently involved when she, wishing to be rid of her husband, tries to make strychninepoisoning look like tetanus. Googie Withers plays this Victorian menace and is, according to the advertisements, the successor to the Wicked Lady-a statement which is erroneous, misleading, and no recommendation anyway. Itymay, in fact, explain in part my lack of enthusiasm for Pink String and Sealing-Wax.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 412, 16 May 1947, Page 13
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159PINK STRING AND SEALING WAX New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 412, 16 May 1947, Page 13
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