British Comedy Guide
For Better, For Worse. Image shows from L to R: Tony Howard (Dirk Bogarde), Anne (Susan Stephen). Copyright: Associated British Picture Corporation
For Better, For Worse

For Better, For Worse

  • 1954 film

When an impoverished young graduate asks his girlfriend's father for permission to marry, approval is conditional on him finding both a job and a flat. Stars Dirk Bogarde, Susan Stephen, Cecil Parker, Dennis Price, Eileen Herlie and more.

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For Better, For Worse

For Better, For Worse

Boasting some of post-war Britain's most accomplished screen stars, this gentle, romantic comedy charts the tribulations of a materially challenged but deeply loving young couple.

Starring Dirk Bogarde, Cecil Parker and Dennis Price, For Better, For Worse is co-scripted and directed by Oscar-nominated Jack Lee-Thompson, and received two BAFTA nominations in 1954. The film is presented here in a brand-new digital transfer in its original aspect ratio.

When impoverished young graduate Tony Howard proposes to Anne Purves in the cinema, he is readily accepted. Her father listens patiently to Tony when he asks for his daughter's hand, but receiving far from satisfactory answers to the usual father-in-law questions, he agrees to the marriage only on the condition that Tony finds both a job and a flat...

Extras:
Original theatrical trailer
Image gallery
Promotional material PDF

First released: Sunday 3rd August 2014

  • Distributor: Network
  • Region: 2
  • Discs: 1
  • Catalogue: 7954173

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