Strange Marriage
Feature film · 68 min · dir. Jung Won-hee
- Thriller
- Drama
Synopsis
Count János Buttler rushes home to his parents and his beloved for the school holidays. On the way, they stop at Baron Dőry's house, where János is deviously trapped. In the presence of false witnesses, he is forcibly married to Baron Dőry's pregnant daughter. The swearing priest is the father of the unborn child. Although Buttler, his family and friends do their utmost to have the marriage annulled, the Church and the court, fearing for his authority, will not allow it. John Buttler and his…
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Jung Won-hee
- Writer
- Gyula Háy
- Cinematography
- Barnabás Hegyi
- Studio
- Magyar Filmgyártó Nemzeti Vállalat
- Released
- 1951-08-12
- Original title
- Különös házasság
- Running time
- 68 minutes
Cast & crew
Jung Won-hee Director
Park Se-wan
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Breezy Pre-Code Romance · Poohbah70 · 2019-06-22
Only in movies - and in pre-code movies - could one find such a preposterous story - that breezily deals with a subject that probably couldn't have been touched upon after the code was instituted. Equally light-handed and light-hearted is the inclusion of various compromised characters and various stinkers. Walter Byron plays the typical leading man of the day - the wealthy, hard-drinking, fast-talking, God's-gift-to-women type, who is amazed and charmed when Evelyn Knapp (Mary Smith) talks back to him. If you like that kind of leading man, he is good at it - and, in the end, is a reformed…
