Ostend Aka For Better Or Worse (1955)

Ostend, Belgium.
C/U children playing organised games on beach. M/S old couple sitting at cafe table and waiter brings them coffee. Mr and Mrs Harold Woolff sit at another table overlooking beach with Dennis Price. Waiter brings them coffee. Cut to C/U Dennis Price and the couple, pan left to L/S beach. M/S Mrs Edna O'Hara with her children sitting on beach and film actress Susan Stephen sits with them. C/U of actress Susan Stephen. Young boy takes a photo of his mum, sister and celebrity with his Kodak Brownie.
Exterior of museum and Vera Lynn is seen with her daughter outside when couple walk past and meet up and shake hands. Exterior of hotel and Mr and Mrs McDonagh are getting into a horse and carriage. Some shots of couple with traffic in background including a tram. Point of view shot from carriage and M/S of horse and carriage as it passes a flower clock with word Ostend above it.
Note: after a competition in the Empire News (A British Sunday newspaper) the prize was one week in Ostend for six couples as a second honeymoon.
FILM ID:35.04
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