Pink String and Sealing Wax

Original title: Pink String and Sealing Wax

89 minutes • 1945 • 6.3 Score

Melodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering pharmacist to assist in the poisoning of her drunkard husband. (The title is from the way pharmacists used to wrap parcels containing poison).

Robert Hamer

Director