Crown v. Stevens

Overview:

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.

Director:

Michael Powell

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

attempted murder
life insurance
gold digger
insurance policy
loan shark
rich husband
nasty wife
scheming wife
greedy wife
wife murders husband
cheapskate
gun death
dull husband
stingy husband
moneylender murdered

Cast

Beatrix Thomson

~ as ~

Doris Stevens

Patric Knowles

~ as ~

Chris Jensen

Glennis Lorimer

~ as ~

Miss Molly Hobbes

Reginald Purdell

~ as ~

Alf

Allan Jeayes

~ as ~

Inspector Carter

Frederick Piper

~ as ~

Arthur Stevens

Googie Withers

~ as ~

Ella Levine

Mabel Poulton

~ as ~

Mamie

Davina Whitehouse

~ as ~

Maggie - Stevens' Maid

Morris Harvey

~ as ~

Maurice Bayleck

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 2 year(s) ago
6
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.