Pink String and Sealing Wax
19451h 29m480p
In Victorian Brighton, a scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering pharmacist to assist in the poisoning of her drunkard husband. (The title is from the way pharmacists used to wrap parcels containing poison.)
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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.
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- Director
- Robert Hamer
- Starring
- Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers, Gordon Jackson, Garry Marsh, Jean Ireland, Sally Ann Howes, Mary Merrall, Catherine Lacey
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