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The Remarkable Mr. Kipps (1941)
"Kipps" (original title)

 -  Comedy | Drama  -  28 June 1941 (UK)
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Kipps the draper's apprentice falls in love with a girl above his station. When he unexpectedly inherits a fortune, he thinks his dream has come true. But money can't make him a gentleman, or bring him the girl he really wants...

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Cast

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Philip Frost ...
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Diana Wynyard ...
Diana Calderwood ...
Ann Pornick - as a girl (as Diana Caldewood)
Phyllis Calvert ...
Arthur Riscoe ...
Max Adrian ...
Helen Haye ...
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Lloyd Pearson ...
Edward Rigby ...
Buggins
Mackenzie Ward ...
Pearce
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Miss Mergle
Betty Ann Davies ...
Flo Bates
Arthur Denton ...
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Kipps the draper's apprentice falls in love with a girl above his station. When he unexpectedly inherits a fortune, he thinks his dream has come true. But money can't make him a gentleman, or bring him the girl he really wants...

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"You won't be happy if you marry outside your class"
10 January 2011 | by (Salisbury, United Kingdom) – See all my reviews

Kipps (an excellently cast and believable 'nice' guy Michael Redgrave) gets told the above at the beginning - and says it to himself at the end of this film. It gives an example of the era and mindset of this quaint period fable.

From a novel by (a less than usual subject normally associated with) H G Wells, this enchanting piece of sub Dickensian clash-of-the-classes is rich in period detail, is at times witty but generally unenthralling fluff. Interestingly, directed by one Carol Reed, only 8 years before his mega-classic The Third Man, Kipps looks twenty years older in style

  • and quality, than his later classic. Whether that was budgetary, or
intentional or simply lacking the brilliant cinematography of Robert Krasker, it shows to the point of being almost incomparable.

Kripps is a dreamy draper in Edwardian England, who believes he has a higher calling in life and through an assorted set of not very adventurous jobs and relationships he attempts to better himself, but finds he cannot.

The UK release is too long and the US version at under 90mins might find more favour. As a rainy afternoon time-waster with lashings of nostalgia it does hit the spot, though. As in a cosy, fireside scene, it's a comfortable fable like 'hot buttered muffins and tea'.

Remade as Half a Sixpence, it probably did need the extra music and dance (and Technicolour) to make it sparkle and have a wider public appeal.


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