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Crown v. Stevens

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When an ex-dancer marries a man for his money she is surprised to find he is a real skinflint. She owes a lot of money to a loan-shark who is after her. However, her husband does carry a lot of life insurance.

Release Date : 1936-08-03

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Warner Bros. First National

Production Country : United Kingdom

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Beatrix Thomson

Character Name : Doris Stevens

Original Name : Beatrix Thomson

Gender : Male

Patric Knowles

Character Name : Chris Jensen

Original Name : Patric Knowles

Gender : Male

Glennis Lorimer

Character Name : Miss Molly Hobbes

Original Name : Glennis Lorimer

Gender : Female

Reginald Purdell

Character Name : Alf

Original Name : Reginald Purdell

Gender : Male

Allan Jeayes

Character Name : Inspector Carter

Original Name : Allan Jeayes

Gender : Male

Frederick Piper

Character Name : Arthur Stevens

Original Name : Frederick Piper

Gender : Male

Googie Withers

Character Name : Ella Levine

Original Name : Googie Withers

Gender : Female

Mabel Poulton

Character Name : Mamie

Original Name : Mabel Poulton

Gender : Female

Davina Whitehouse

Character Name : Maggie - Stevens' Maid

Original Name : Davina Whitehouse

Gender : Female

Morris Harvey

Character Name : Maurice Bayleck

Original Name : Morris Harvey

Gender : Male

Bernard Miles

Character Name : Detective Wells

Original Name : Bernard Miles

Gender : Male

Reviews

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CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2022-09-03

This is quite a decent little pot boiler that sees "Doris" (Beatrix Stevens) married to her wealthy, but thrifty husband "Alf" (Reginald Purdell). Now to put it mildly, she is pretty beastly to him and as she finally tires of his reluctance to waste his money on her, she conceives of a plan to get shot of him and claim his substantial life insurance - and she manages to embroil his rather naive, but equally cash-strapped, employee "Jensen" (Patric Knowles) in her plotting too. The title is a touch misleading; this isn't remotely a court-room drama. It is, though, quite a niftily paced drama about a greedy woman with a distinctly dodgy moral compass who ultimately comes a cropper in rather underwhelming fashion. There is no real jeopardy to the simple plot, indeed the whole thing is pretty much join-the-dots cinema, but you can see here that Knowles has a little je ne sais quoi about him. Although the production is distinctly basic, it still passes an hour effortlessly enough.