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Pink String and Sealing Wax
Pink String and Sealing Wax is a 1945 British drama film directed by Robert Hamer and starring Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers and Gordon Jackson. It is based on a play with the same name by Roland Pertwee. It was the first feature film Robert Hamer directed on his own.
Plot summary.
The wife of a pub landlord in Victorian Brighton, who is having an affair, wants to rid herself of her abusive husband. To accomplish this she befriends a young man who works in
sequence to "Dead of Night" (1945). He followed this with the three Ealing films under his own name for which he is best remembered: "Pink String and Sealing Wax" (1946), "It Always Rains on Sunday" (1947), both featuring Googie Withers, and the black comedy "Kind Hearts and Coronets" (1949), with Dennis Price and Alec Guinness.
Hamer was an alcoholic, who by the time of his last film as director, "School for Scoundrels"