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Marriage of Convenience (1960)

Marriage of Convenience poster
Directed by
Clive Donner
Genre
crime film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
58 min
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A detective investigates a series of robberies and a murder. He discovers a plot involving a false marriage.

moderate-pacedsuspensefulinvolvingatmosphericdatedmysteriousserious

What happens

Marriage of Convenience is a 1960 British crime film directed by Clive Donner and starring Harry H. Corbett, John Cairney and John Van Eyssen. The screenplay was by Robert Banks Stewart, based on the 1924 Edgar Wallace novel The Three Oak Mystery. It is part of the series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries films made at Merton Park Studios from 1960 to 1965. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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