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Director:
Victor Saville
Writers:
A.S.M. Hutchinson (novel)
Marguerite Roberts (writer)
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Release Date:
31 December 1947 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
It's 1939 in the small English town of Penny Green and events in Poland are about to change lives. Mark Sabre... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Walter Pidgeon ... Mark Sabre

Deborah Kerr ... Nona Tybar

Angela Lansbury ... Mabel Sabre
Binnie Barnes ... Natalie Bagshaw

Janet Leigh ... Effie Bright
Dame May Whitty ... Mrs. Perch
René Ray ... Sarah 'Low Jinks'
Virginia Keiley ... Rebecca 'High Jinks'
Reginald Owen ... Mr. Fortune
John Abbott ... Mr. Twyning

Rhys Williams ... Mr. Bright
Hugh French ... Tony Tyber
Dennis Hoey ... Tiny Wilson
Nicholas Joy ... Mr. Pettigrew
Halliwell Hobbes ... The Coroner
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Runtime:
97 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
Finland:S | USA:Approved (PCA #12565, Adult Audience)
Company:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) more

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Angela Lansbury then twenty-two wanted the sympathetic role of the waif-like village girl Effie but was forced to play Mabel the thirty-five year old shrewish wife of fifty year old Walter Pidgeon. This brought home to Lansbury that she would never be a star player at MGM. The role of Effie went to Janet Leigh who would be Lansbury's co-star in The Manchurian Candidate where Lansbury would again play an older unsympathetic woman although this role - Mrs. Iselin - would be cited by Lansbury as her favorite film role. more
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Referenced in Forecast (1945) more

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Waiting for Spring, 11 May 2008
6/10
Author: dbdumonteil

A melodrama which takes off mainly in its second part ,when Sabre (Pidgeon) does everything to help Effie (Janet Leigh) ,the unfortunate young girl who falls pregnant

at a time it was not considered "correct" by well-meaning people.Fine depiction of everyday life and plenty of talk of the town.

Angela Landsbury's and Walter Pidgeon's marriage is on the rocks .He is in love with another woman (Deborah Kerr).As I wrote above,best scenes are those when Pidgeon is alone against the whole town who suspects him of having got Effie pregnant.

Should appeal to people who like stuff like "Mrs Minniver" (1942),but Wyler's work is much better though.

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