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Look Before You Love
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Wikipedia article
'Look Before You Love' is a 1948 British drama film directed by Harold Huth and starring Margaret Lockwood, Griffith Jones and Maurice Denham.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090113221610/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/267235 BFI.org]
Plot summary
A woman working in the British Embassy in Brazil falls in love and marries a man, but soon discovers him to be a drunken wastrel tied up with serious crime.
Cast
* Margaret Lockwood as Ann Markham
* Griffith Jones as Charles Kent
* Norman Wooland as Ashley Morehouse
* Phyllis Stanley as Bettina Colby
* Maurice Denham as Fosser
* Frederick Piper as Miller
* Bruce Seton as Johns
* Michael Medwin as Emile Garat
* Violet Farebrother as Dowager
* Peggy Evans as Typist
Production
The film was originally known as 'I Know You' and 'Change of Heart'. Margaret Lockwood had been arguing with the Rank Organisation over what films she should make but agreed to do this.
Critical reception
In a contemporary review, 'Variety' called the film "an overlong and somewhat corny love story that gives Margaret Lockwood a sympathetic role after her many 'Wicked Lady' characterisations, in which she has been so successfully typed in the past", adding, "it may gratify the out-of-town popular audiences, but its chances of success in any metropolis are scant"; while more recently, 'TV Guide' rated the film two out of five stars, dismissing it as a "Ridiculous story played straight; as a farce it might have had some chance."
The film generally received poor reviews. The film's failure contributed to the decline in Lockwood's popularity.
References
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