by Hal Erickson
synopsis
This fanciful British farce stars Bernard Braden as an impoverished artist. The uncle of Braden's wife Barbara Kelly agrees to bankroll the couple if Braden will start making his work more commercial. Uncle sends an attorney over to the couple's house to assess their net worth. In order to pay for the necessary home repairs, Kelly pawns her husband--not her husband's paintings, but hubby in the flesh. When Kelly can't make the payments, Braden remains on the pawnshop shelf, hence the film's title. Future Saint producers Robert Baker and Monty Berman were the perpetrators of this wobbly piece of whimsy.
characteristics
- Suffering
- Poverty
- Pawnshop
- Pawning
- Ticket
- Uncle
- Wives
- Wife
- Visit
- Upward-mobility
- Pawn [hock]
- Pawnbroker
- Deprivation
- Couple
- Bribe
