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They Knew What They Wanted

Duration: 1 hour, 24 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two HD

Adaptation of Sidney Howard's play about an Italian wine grower who conducts a courtship by mail with a lonely waitress and asks her to marry him. When she arrives at his California vineyard, however, she discovers the photograph he sent her was not of himself but of his foreman. Though she agrees to go ahead with the wedding, it is the handsome foreman she turns to for comfort when the farmer is injured in an accident. Show less

Contributors

Tony Patucci:
Charles Laughton
Amy Peters:
Carole Lombard
Father McKee:
Frank Fay
Mildred:
Janet Fox
Ah Gee, the Cook:
Lee Tung Foo
Director:
Garson Kanin
Producer:
Erich Pommer

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