4-410: The Constant Husband is a 1955 British comedy film , directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring Rex Harrison , Margaret Leighton , Kay Kendall , Cecil Parker , George Cole and Raymond Huntley . The story was written by Gilliat together with Val Valentine , and the film was produced by Individual Pictures, Gilliat's and Frank Launder 's joint production company. Because the film got caught up in
8-563: Is just one of many women whom he has bigamously married. The film was made in Shepperton Studios , with shooting finished in early June 1954, just a week after the studio's owner and the film's intended distributor, British Lion Film Corporation , went into receivership on 1 June 1954. The opening scenes were filmed on location at New Quay and Aberaeron , Ceredigion , Mid Wales , and others at Kensington , Millbank , Wormwood Scrubs , Holborn , and St. Paul's , London. When
12-622: The 1954 bankruptcy of British Lion Film Corporation , it was not released until more than seven months after it had been finished and reviewed by the British Board of Film Censors . A man wakes up in a hotel room in Wales , suffering from amnesia . He has no recollection of who he is, why he is there, or where he comes from. With the help of psychologist Doctor Llewellyn, they trace a wife and home in London , but they go on to discover that she
16-484: The film was screened by the censors at BBFC on 10 September 1954, it was submitted by Frank Launder 's company Launder Productions, as it did not yet have a new distributor. In January 1955, Launder, Gilliat and the Boulting brothers formed a new company, British Lion Films Ltd., which took over the running of Shepperton as well as British Lion's distribution business, and the film finally received its world premiere at
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