The Clandestine Marriage
For better...or for worse
1999 · 1h 30m · N/A Comedy, History
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The Clandestine Marriage
Overview
A period film, set around an English country house whose owners want to arrange a marriage of convenience between their elder daughter and an aristocratic heir of a hard-up noble family.
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