An Ideal Husband
1958-06-08 · 100 min · ★ 10.0
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.
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- Directors
- Hanns Farenburg
- Production companies
- Nord- und Westdeutscher Rundfunkverband (NWRV)
- Countries
- Germany
- Status
- Released
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Marius GoringLord Goring
Albert LievenSir Robert Chiltern
Hilde WeissnerGertrude, Lady Chiltern
Maria KörberMabel Chiltern
Ruth HausmeisterMrs Cheveley
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