Bernard Braden and Barbara Kelly play a young couple who are forced to take drastic measures to raise money because a large gift is coming their way from a distant relative – however it is dependent on them not being in debt – and so the wife takes drastic action and pawns her husband.

However his new family seem to really like him, particularly daughter Jeannie Carson  who does what she can to seduce him. Soon the situation becomes a national sensation, as Barbara Kelly is reluctant to retrieve her now confused husband. Farcial situations abound as you can imagine.

ABOVE:  John Laurie offers legal advice.

I have featured this film before on the Blog when I said that, as a young boy, my brother and I were taken to see it 

There is lots of sharp, punning dialogue, presumably supplied by “additional” script writers, Frank Muir and Denis Norden.

Husband and wife team Bernard Braden and Barbara Kelly – those Television stars of the 50’s – fitted well into this  family-friendly comedy –  the type that the film industry churned out throughout the decade. 

They play a pair of bohemians living the artistic life on a houseboat in Chelsea.

Among the cast  is Reg Dixon who had succeeded George Formby in the West End in  the hit musical ‘Zip Goes a Million’ when George had a heart attack.   He played one of the pawn shop partners, perpetually harassed by his family.

He never really made it in films,  He had been a big Radio Star as well as having the West End hit.

ABOVE – We see Reg Dixon with Bernard Braden and Jeannie Carson

John Laurie is well cast a stuffy lawyer who gets caught up in the couple’s schemes.  Laurence Naismith is also cast

Script: Guy Morgan, Frank Muir, Denis Norden

Director: Charles Saunders

Other actors: Jeannie Carson, Walter Grisham, Avice Landone, Tom Gill, Alan Robinson, Dorothy Gordon, Benita Lydell, Hal Osmond

Love in Pawn is a pleasant way of spending an hour and twenty minutes and it is quite good fun entertainment.