Directed by:
Carol ReedCast:
Michael Redgrave, Diana Wynyard, Phyllis Calvert, Arthur Riscoe, Helen Haye, Michael Wilding, Hermione Baddeley, Kathleen Harrison, Lloyd Pearson (more)Plots(1)
Carol Reed directed this adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel about a British shopkeeper who inherits money and tries to crash society; it was later the basis of the Tommy Steele musical Half a Sixpence. Michael Redgrave is Arthur Kipps, a nondescript storekeeper who finds himself heir to a large fortune. Society golddigger Helen Walshinham (Diana Wynyard) immediately comes on the scene, hoping to trick Kipps into marrying her. Right before the wedding, Kipps gets cold feet and instead runs off with his childhood sweetheart, Ann Pornick (Phyllis Calvert). The two get married but Ann wants to live simply while Kipps continues to want to live large with his inherited fortune. (official distributor synopsis)
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Michael Redgrave
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Diana Wynyard
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Phyllis Calvert
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Michael Wilding
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Max Adrian
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