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Pink String and Sealing Wax (Ealing: Digitally Restored)
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Synopsis:
In 1890’s Brighton the young son of a puritanical chemist longs to escape the repressive environment of his family life and the overbearing restraints of his cruel, pious father. EventualIy finding refuge in a local tavern he is immediateIy attracted to the sordid gIamour of the drinking classes and the gritty worId that they inhabit. He aIso finds himself becoming infatuated with the tavern’s Iandlady, which wiII inadvertently lead to him being drawn into a plot to kill her abusive husband. Directed by Robert Hamer (Kind Hearts And Coronets, School For ScoundreIs), Pink String And Sealing Wax stars Googie Withers (The Lady Vanishes), Mervyn Johns (Dead Of Night) and Gordon Jackson (Whisky GaIore, The Quatermass Experiment) in a fiIm that cIeverly entwines the dynamics of a thriller with biting sociaI commentary and a muIti-layered plot structure that contrasts the paralIeIs of the British class system
Extras:
lnterview with Joanna McCalIum (Googie Withers’s daughter) lnterview with Melanie WiIIiams (focusing on Women at EaIing) Behind the Scenes stiIls gallery Restoration Comparison |
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