For Better, for Worse

For Better, for Worse

85 mins | Comedy, Romance | June 20, 1954

In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a £5.10.0 job and a 30/- a week single-room flat. The newly-weds find money fearfully tight, the flat cramped, the neighbours a trial, and her parents always hovering. Can faith conquer all? Is there some way of getting rid of tea-leaves except down the sink?

For Better, for Worse

85 mins | Comedy, Romance | June 20, 1954

For Better, for Worse
In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a £5.10.0 job and a 30/- a week single-room flat. The newly-weds find money fearfully tight, the flat cramped, the neighbours a trial, and her parents always hovering. Can faith conquer all? Is there some way of getting rid of tea-leaves except down the sink?
IMDb rating 5.7
Producers Kenwood Productions
Original title For Better, for Worse
Directors Maurice Gibson, J. Lee Thompson
Writers Arthur Watkin, J. Lee Thompson

Cast

Dirk Bogarde

as Tony Howard

Susan Stephen

as Anne Purves

Cecil Parker

as Anne's Father

Eileen Herlie

as Anne's Mother

Athene Seyler

as Miss Mainbrace

Dennis Price

as Debenham

Pia Terri

as Mrs. Debenham

James Hayter

as The Plumber

Thora Hird

as Mrs. Doyle

Charles Victor

as Fred

Sid James

as The Foreman (as Sidney James)

Peter Jones

as The Car Dealer