Film Preview – Bognor Regis Observer – Saturday, 25 September 1948

PAVILION, SELSEY. The predicament of a sailor who marries a girl impressed by his uniform only to learn that he is being given a medical discharge, furnishes the basis of the laughs and human interest in "THE SAILOR TAKES A WIFE," coming on Monday for three days. The newlyweds have therefore to start housekeeping in a dilapidated New York apartment, and find as their neighbour in the apartment below an exotic Roumanian refugee (Audrey Totter) who almost causes a rift in their happiness. Robert Walker and June Allyson portray the couple. All the love, hatred and scheming of three generations of Crowthers, who own the Bankdam mill, have been recaptured on the screen to provide entertainment of the highest standard in "MASTER OF BANKDAM," showing on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. This is the human story of a Yorkshire family, headed by Simeon Crowther (Torn Walls), who has built up a prosperous business. But a grim battle for mastery develops between his sons and is passed down to their children.