Always A Bride
Brief Synopsis
A female con artist working the Riviera falls for an honest Treasury agent.
Cast & Crew
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Ralph Smart
Director
Jacques Brunius
T. Morgan
Charles Goldner
James Hayter
Dino Galvani
Film Details
Genre
Comedy
Release Date
1954
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 22m
Sound
Mono
Color
Black and White
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.37 : 1
Synopsis
Victor Hemsley (Ronald Squire) and his daughter, Clare (Peggy Cummings) ply their trade at swanky Riviera resorts, where they pose as a married couple---hence the title---and he "disappears with all of her savings" and sympathetic money contributions pour in on her from the wealthy guests. She would prefer a more settled life and meets and falls in love with Terence Winch (Terence Morgan), an investigator for the British Treasury. He is ostracized by both the guests and the management as his job is to see that none of the British citizens spends more money than permitted by the government. Clare agrees to work with her father on one last scheme in which they "sell" the hotel they're staying in in Nice. They pull it off, but are paid in counterfeit money and flee to Italy, followed closely by the police and Terence. James Hayter appears as the wealthiest man on the Riviera who is also England's best known tax dodger, while David Hurst is a petty thief who always fails and Charles Goldner is an amorous hotel manager.
Director
Ralph Smart
Director
Film Details
Genre
Comedy
Release Date
1954
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 22m
Sound
Mono
Color
Black and White
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.37 : 1
Articles
Always a Bride
The Welsh-born, Irish-bred actress Peggy Cummins gouged an unforgettable mark on American movies with her unforgettable performance as the seductive pistol-packing stunt shooter who gets her hooks into a masochistic gun fetishist and turns him into a hold up artist in Gun Crazy (1950). Three years later on home soil in the British romantic comedy Always a Bride, the icy, Veronica Lake-lookalike actress is less deadly but just as devious, as one half of a father-daughter con artist team who pose as a married couple (!) to milk wealthy people on Riviera vacations for all they're worth. This time, though, she's growing tired of her dishonest life -- will a romance with British Treasury official Terence Winch (Terence Morgan) provide her the stability she craves? And can she settle down without having to do one last, big con with her father? Look for portly character actor Sebastian Cabot in a small role as a taxi driver - his voice will be instantly recognizable by animation fans as the voice of Bagheera the panther in The Jungle Book (1967), as well as the narrator from many of Disney's Winnie The Pooh movies.
Always a Bride
The Welsh-born, Irish-bred actress Peggy Cummins gouged an unforgettable mark on American movies with her unforgettable performance as the seductive pistol-packing stunt shooter who gets her hooks into a masochistic gun fetishist and turns him into a hold up artist in Gun Crazy (1950). Three years later on home soil in the British romantic comedy Always a Bride, the icy, Veronica Lake-lookalike actress is less deadly but just as devious, as one half of a father-daughter con artist team who pose as a married couple (!) to milk wealthy people on Riviera vacations for all they're worth. This time, though, she's growing tired of her dishonest life -- will a romance with British Treasury official Terence Winch (Terence Morgan) provide her the stability she craves? And can she settle down without having to do one last, big con with her father? Look for portly character actor Sebastian Cabot in a small role as a taxi driver - his voice will be instantly recognizable by animation fans as the voice of Bagheera the panther in The Jungle Book (1967), as well as the narrator from many of Disney's Winnie The Pooh movies.
