Bond Street (1948)

A young bride (Hazel Court) wants everything to be perfect on her wedding day: the wedding dress, the veil, her pearls and the flowers. But the film isn't about her but about the four backstories of the dress, the veil, the pearls and the flowers which involve blackmail, murder, births, reunions and even laughs. Co-written by Terence Rattigan (SEPARATE TABLES) and directed by Gordon Parry, this portmanteau film is a mixed bag. The wedding dress story with Kathleen Harrison as a dressmaker is rather touching, the pearls story about a thief (Derek Farr) and a lady of the evening (Jean Kent) goes past its expiration date, the veil story about a seamstress (Patricia Plunkett) and her no good husband (Kenneth Griffith) is satisfying but the flowers backstory about the bride's father (Roland Young) trying to avert disaster when the groom's (Robert Flemyng) old flame (Paula Valenska) turning up is sabotaged by Flemyng's character who is a total ninny and more irritating than amusing. The film's producer Anatole De Grunwald would also produce two of the more notable portmanteau films of the 1960s, THE V.I.P.S and THE YELLOW ROLLS ROYCE. With Ronald Howard and Adrianne Allen.