The Franchise Affair (film)
The Franchise Affair is a 1951 British mystery thriller film directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Anthony Nicholls and Marjorie Fielding.[2] It was shot at Elstree Studios with location shooting taking place around Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire which stood in for the fictional town of Melford.In a quiet English market town, 17-year-old schoolgirl Betty Kane (Ann Stephens) claims that the owners of an isolated house ("The Franchise"), spinster Marion Sharpe (Dulcie Gray) and Marion's mother (Marjorie Fielding), kidnapped and beat her.The police believe Betty's story, but local lawyer Robert Blair (Michael Denison), a bachelor, is sceptical.Lawyer Blair asks Marion to marry him, but she declines and after the trial she and her mother go to fly away to Canada.