The Constant Husband
| The Constant Husband | |
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DVD cover based on the original UK film poster
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| Directed by | Sidney Gilliat |
| Produced by |
Sidney Gilliat Frank Launder |
| Written by |
Sidney Gilliat Val Valentine |
| Starring |
Rex Harrison Margaret Leighton Kay Kendall Cecil Parker |
| Music by | Malcolm Arnold |
| Cinematography | Edward Scaife |
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Individual Pictures Ltd
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| Distributed by | British Lion Films (UK) |
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Running time
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88 min |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Box office | £162,649 (UK) |
The Constant Husband is a 1955 British comedy film, directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring Rex Harrison, Margaret Leighton, Kay Kendall, Cecil Parker, George Cole and Raymond Huntley. The story was written by Gilliat together with Val Valentine, and the film was produced by Individual Pictures, Gilliat's and Frank Launder's joint production company. Because the film got caught up in the 1954 bankruptcy of British Lion Film Corporation, it wasn't released until more than seven months after it had been finished and reviewed by the British Board of Film Censors.
A man (Rex Harrison) wakes up in a hotel room in Wales, suffering from amnesia. He has no recollection of who he is or where he comes from. With the help of mental specialist Doctor Llewellyn (Cecil Parker), he manages to trace himself back to his wife and home in London, but soon discovers that she is just one of his many wives in his many homes all over the country.
The film was made in Shepperton Studios, with shooting finished in early June 1954, just a week after the studio's owner and the film's intended distributor, British Lion Film Corporation, went into receivership on 1 June 1954. The opening scenes were filmed on location at New Quay and Aberaeron, Ceredigion, Mid Wales, and others at Kensington, Millbank, Wormwood Scrubs, Holborn, and St. Paul's, London. When the film was screened by the censors at BBFC on 10 September 1954, it was submitted by Frank Launder's company Launder Productions, as it didn't yet have a new distributor. In January 1955, Launder, Gilliat and the Boulting brothers formed a new company, British Lion Films Ltd., which took over the running of Shepperton as well as British Lion's distribution business, and the film could finally see its world premiere at the London Pavilion on 21 April 1955.
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