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Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general happiness for all (or nearly all). Peter, the young wastrel son of a hard working hotel owner doesn't like the idea of having to work for a living. He discovers a society of "White Elephants" who are quite willing to be poor as long as they don't have to work. They are protected and guided by Nina (Margaret Lockwood) and her precocious sister Heidi ('Jean Simmons') (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Roland Culver
UK
Best movies:
To Each His Own (1946)
Thunderball (1965)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Patricia Owens
Canada
Best movies:
Sayonara (1957)
Hell to Eternity (1960)
The Law and Jake Wade (1958)
Peter Graves
UK
Best movies:
I Hired a Contract Killer (1990)
The Assassination Bureau (1969)
Alfie (1966)
George Relph
UK
Best movies:
Ben-Hur (1959)
The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953)
Doctor at Large (1957)
Harry Fowler
UK
Best movies:
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Longest Day (1962)
Angels One Five (1952)
Irene Handl
UK
Best movies:
Brief Encounter (1945)
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980)
Stage Fright (1950)
Eliot Makeham
UK
Best movies:
Night and the City (1950)
The Citadel (1938)
Scrooge (1951)
Rosamund Greenwoood
UK
Best movies:
A Night to Remember (1958)
Macbeth (1948)
Night of the Demon (1957)
Arthur Denton
UK
Best movies:
Passport to Pimlico (1949)
Night Train to Munich (1940)
Dorothy Bramhall
UK
Best movies:
Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
Victor Rietti
Italy
Best movies:
The Divorce of Lady X (1938)
The Ghost Goes West (1935)
21 Days (1940)
John Salew
UK
Best movies:
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
Frank Atkinson
UK
Best movies:
Great Expectations (1946)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Murder at the Gallop (1963)